full-disclosure - Another IE trick (Re: IE sucks : sun java virtual machine insecure tmp file creation)

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From: eric at arcticbears.com (Eric Paynter)
Subject: Another IE trick (Re: IE sucks : sun java 
     virtual machine insecure tmp file creation)

On Fri, July 9, 2004 7:43 am, http-equiv@...ite.com said:
> There are lots of little .tmp files generated and accessible
> remotely to be had, Adobe *.pdf's and  a vast array of Microsoft
> Office 2003 crud to name just two. Many others which have been
> identified and discussed in the past as well.

I think:

mount /dev/xxxx /tmp -o noexec

would reduce the risk significantly. Can you do something equivalent in
Windows?

-Eric

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