bugtraq - Re: Round One: "DLL Proxy" Attack Easily Hijacks SSL from Internet Explorer

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Message-ID: <200402102113.QAA06593@Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:10:55 -0500 (EST)
From: der Mouse <mouse@...ents.Montreal.QC.CA>
To: Darren Reed <avalon@...igula.anu.edu.au>,
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Round One: "DLL Proxy" Attack Easily Hijacks SSL from Internet Explorer


> Signed applications and signed DLLs and signed drivers [...] coming
> to a Unix near you SOONER rather than later.

> Or is that the kind of thing you disable upon installation because it
> gets in the way of you being able to install whatever "you" want ?

Depends.  Does it include the tools necessary to sign my own code?

If not, yes, I will disable it, to the point of running a different OS
if necessary.

If so, what's to stop a malware creator from using those same tools to
sign the attack vector?

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