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New IE4 privacy issue


From: aleph1 () UNDERGROUND ORG (aleph1 () UNDERGROUND ORG)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:11:44 -0800


Greetings, 

There is a new IE 4 issue affecting privacy. The clipboard content can be made public by a javascript code two lines 
long.
I reported the problem to Microsoft on Jan 7 and they have posted the corresponding security bulletin and a fix today 
21 January.
Although the vulnerability can be exploited from IE 4 navigator it is not a IE 4 bug. The problem is located in some 
ActiveX called "MS Forms 2.0" that are shipped and installed with the following applications :


Microsoft Office 97
Microsot Outlook 98
Microsoft Project 98
Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0
Other non MS applications based on VB or VBA 


More info and a demo is available at :
http://pages.whowhere.com/computers/cuartangojc
Microsoft security bulletin is : 
http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/ms99-001.asp


Regards,


Juan Carlos



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