[41984] in bugtraq
RE: WMF browser-ish exploit vectors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James C Slora Jr)
Thu Jan 5 23:25:00 2006
From: "James C Slora Jr" <Jim.Slora@phra.com>
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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:36:47 -0500
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Dave Korn wrote
> Have you tried giving it a mpg/avi/wma/wmv extension and getting
> it to open in a (perhaps embedded) mediaplayer? That's liable to
> work as well; mediaplayer is also vulnerable to the
>
choose-an-app-based-on-extension/app-loads-a-viewer-based-on-actual-content
> desynchronisation attack...
I have seen at least one cached .wmz (Windows Media Player Skin) file
trigger AV alerts for the WMF exploit (Symantec Bloodhound.Exploit.56) after
having been opened in WMP10.
