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Re: POS#1 Self-Executing HTML: Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 Part
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Art Manion)
Fri Nov 7 14:51:03 2003
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 12:22:14 -0500
From: Art Manion <amanion@cert.org>
Reply-To: Art Manion <amanion@cert.org>
To: Kurt Seifried <kurt@seifried.org>, 1@malware.com,
bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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--On Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:02 AM -0700 Kurt Seifried
<kurt@seifried.org> wrote:
>> In our never-ending quest for entertainment, we commece from
>> this date forward to end-2004 our POS series of findings. That
>> is the 'perfect operating system'. Today we debut and regurgitate
>> new and not so new for fun as follows. A warm up for the New Year if
>> you will !:
>
> This is easy to avoid. Just set the kill bit for the affected Active
> component, Adodb.Stream for which the CLSID is
> 4B106874-DD36-11D0-8B44-00A024DD9EFF.
{4B106874-DD36-11D0-8B44-00A024DD9EFF} is the Local Troubleshooter control.
The ADODB.Stream control, an important part of several current IE exploits,
is {00000566-0000-0010-8000-00AA006D2EA4}.
MS KB article about the kill bit:
<http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q240/7/97.asp>
Disable Active scripting for untrusted sites.
- Art
