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RE: [ok] [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curt Purdy)
Sun Jul 18 23:36:19 2004
From: "Curt Purdy" <purdy@tecman.com>
To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>, <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>,
<tlarholm@pivx.com>, <brett.moore@security-assessment.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:29:27 -0500
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Dmitry Yu wrote:
> > Being curious, on Win2k, I copied cmd.exe (from
> winnt\system32) as xyz.pif;
> > then (right-click) Properties, Program crashes explorer. Is
> this related to
> > IconHandler, and is it exploitable?
>
> Disassembly window shows that there was an attempt to read dword
> at [EAX] (EAX=0). So at first glance this doesn't seem to be
> trivially
> exploitable, but I'm not a win32 expert, and intuition
> suggests that there
> must be a way.
One possible exploit is to simply place the file on your desktop.
explorer.exe goes to 100% cpu.
Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions
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