bugtraq - RE: WMF browser-ish exploit vectors

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Message-ID: <20060105223717.A13852331B1@mail8-red.bigfish.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:36:47 -0500
From: "James C Slora Jr" <Jim.Slora@...a.com>
To: <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: RE: WMF browser-ish exploit vectors


Dave Korn wrote 

> Have you tried giving it a mpg/avi/wma/wmv extension and getting
> it to open in a (perhaps embedded) mediaplayer?  That's liable to
> work as well; mediaplayer is also vulnerable to the 
>
choose-an-app-based-on-extension/app-loads-a-viewer-based-on-actual-content
> desynchronisation attack...

I have seen at least one cached .wmz (Windows Media Player Skin) file
trigger AV alerts for the WMF exploit (Symantec Bloodhound.Exploit.56) after
having been opened in WMP10.