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A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad (msrc.microsoft.com)
submitted 3 days ago by als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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They finally did it. Microsoft has successfully over-engineered a text editor into a threat vector.

This CVE is an 8.8 severity RCE in Notepad of all things.

Apparently, the "innovation" of adding markdown support came with the ability of launching unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

We have reached a point where the simple act of opening a .md file in a native utility can compromise your system.

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[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 16 points 2 days ago (17 children)

I miss oldskool Notepad being present on the system. Win11 Notepad is a worthless piece of shit.
But ... any computer or vm that I use for more than a few hours gets a copy of Metapad.

I've been using Metapad for ... umm ... decades.
Metapad is a simple, extremely lightweight editor, intended to just barely be better than Notepad, fixes a lot of shit that MS never did and stays simple.
https://liquidninja.com/metapad/

[–] Professor_Piddles@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I've been a long time user of Notepad++ after Notepad started inserting random whitespace characters in files, which messed up some jankety scripting I was doing at the time. Do you happen to know if Metapad is good about not adding unintended characters like that?

[–] dbtng@eviltoast.org 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes. Metapad is too dumb for that shit. By design.
It's only barely smart enough to be better than Notepad.
It's not smart enough to do anything dumb.

Its free, extremely mature, and you already know how to use it.
Metapad is a feature-for-feature drop-in replacement for Notepad.

[–] Professor_Piddles@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Thanks! I'll check it out 🍻

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