2026-02-11 07:49 UTC
@solonovamax@tech.lgbt @stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au I went and tried to find if there's ever been a prior CVE for notepad and came up empty.
So decent odds that this is the first CVE Windows Notepad has ever had.
That's an accomplishment, just not of the good kind.
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@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au 2026-02-11 11:05
@StryderNotavi@aus.social @solonovamax@tech.lgbt Not surprising, the only way you could achieve a CVE back then would be to make someone open a nasty text file. Given it used to throw its hands up in the air beyond a megabyte or two, that was a tall order. Maybe DDE had a vector, but I doubt it. It was fine for 40 years… 40! Then, they decided it was due for its mid-life crisis with CVE-inducing network features.
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@dheadshot@mastodon.social 2026-02-13 01:07
@StryderNotavi@aus.social Does the infamous "Bush Hid The Facts" Notepad glitch count? (I don't know if that still "works", of course). @solonovamax@tech.lgbt @stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au