Re: ZDnet forum: IE formatting local drive

["Thor Larholm" <lists.netsys.com () jscript dk>]

It's a copy of the advisory from Sandblad, with a few bits changed.

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/298924/2002-11-02/2002-11-08/1

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/299094/2002-11-02/2002-11-08/1
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/299330/2002-11-09/2002-11-15/1
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/299230/2002-11-09/2002-11-15/1

Why is this even surprising people? For ages, you have been able to plant a
file on the users machine, locate its location, jump to a local security
zone and then execute the file. Sure, you skip 2 steps by using the HTMLHelp
Control, but the impact is the same - running arbitrary code.


Regards
Thor Larholm, Security Researcher
PivX Solutions, LLC

Are You Secure?
http://www.PivX.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Rouse" <ARouse () n2bb com>
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Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 7:29 PM
Subject: [Full-disclosure] ZDnet forum: IE formatting local drive


> Format a local drive by visiting a URL from a fully patched Windows / IE
> platform.  This appeared last night:
>
> http://forums.zdnet.com/group/zd.Security.Virus.Alerts/community/communi
> ty.tpt/@thread@33885@F@1@D-,D@ALL/@article@mark@33885?EXP=ALL&VWM=&ROS=&
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