full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft's Binary Planting Clean-Up Mission

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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:24:16 +0200
From: "ACROS Security Lists" <lists@...os.si>
To: <paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Microsoft's Binary Planting Clean-Up Mission

Hi Paul,

These two changes have been introduced earlier (sometime between April and August).
We haven't noticed any mention of them in Microsoft's public documents.

Cheers,
Mitja

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au [mailto:paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au] 
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 2:21 AM
> To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk; lists@...os.si
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft's Binary Planting 
> Clean-Up Mission
> 
> Dear Mitja,
> 
> In your blog
> http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/09/microsofts-binary-planti
ng-clean-up.html
> you wrote:
>   Change #1: No "file://" Inside "http://"
>     Microsoft changed the behavior of Internet Explorer such 
> that a web
>     page (served via http://) can't display the content of a shared
>     folder (served via file://) in a frame/iframe. This is good ...
>   Change #2: No "file://" From "http://"
>     Not allowing a web page loaded via http:// to open a file:// URL
>     blocks this attack vector and this is good. ...
> 
> When were those IE changes made: as part of MS11-057 maybe?
> I could not find any references to such a change.
> 
> Thanks, Paul
> 
> Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   
> http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
> School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney   
>  Australia
> 

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