On Wednesday, 8 de June de 2011 12:33:39 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Since the system doesn't have a Wacom tablet, so there's no wintab32.dll in 
> the system dirs. When Qt probes for the Wacom drivers, it tells the system
> to LoadLibrary("wintab32") and that will be resolved on the current
> directory. At that point, the DLL that the attacker provided can do
> *anything*.

By the way, we fixed this. First, there's a Windows security fix. Second, Qt no 
longer does LoadLibrary("wintab32"). We introduced QSystemLibrary, an internal 
class that only loads from system paths.

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