Re: new internet explorer exploit (was new worm)

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Just wanted to add that Norton Anti-Virus 2004 will detect this exploit and 
pop up a warning, but also fails to halt its execution or protect the user 
in any way.

Here is what it thinks it is:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/bloodhound.exploit.6.html

So there is some measure of warning, but no real protection.


At 04:35 PM 3/29/2004 +0200, Jelmer wrote:
> The code used by this worm to exploit it's users at least partly  is (i
> think) new , the vulnerability it abused has afaik not been published on
> eighter bugtraq or full-disclosure. possibly making it (one of?) the first
> worm to totally catch people offguard.
>
> It allows a mallicious person to take any action on an unsuspecting user who
> view's a specially prepared page's pc
>
> The known ingredient it uses is :
> http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2003-08/1758.html
> that has gone unpatched for over 5 months now
>
> The remainder of the exploit manages to confuse this same adodb.stream
> object enough to make it think it's being run from a local location
>
> You can protect yourself against it by running
> http://ip3e83566f.speed.planet.nl/hacked-by-chinese/fix.reg
>
>
> I attached sample code myself to illustrate the problem, because
> http-equiv's was messy :)
> This one should be more straightforward to use
>
> Instructions :
>
> 1. unzip
> 2. overwrite exploit.exe with the executable you wish to run, or leave it
> untoched if you want to see some nice texturemapped rotation
> 3. upload the files to a webserver
> 4. view exploit.htm
>
> Tested on winxp pro all patches
>
> for the lazy ones among you can also view a demonstration here :
>
> http://ip3e83566f.speed.planet.nl/security/newone/exploit.htm