full-disclosure - New IE sploit?

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Date: Mon Mar 27 08:25:57 2006
From: stelian.ene at gecadtech.com (Stelian Ene)
Subject: New IE sploit?

Bart.Lansing@...ls.com wrote:
> 
> 
> This will handle the announced sploit...assuming you do snort, courtesy
> of Bleeding-Snort:
> 
> http://www.bleedingsnort.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/sigs/EXPLOIT/EXPLOIT_IE_Vulnerabilities?view=markup
> 

This will handle the specific variation used in that exploit, but blocking this
completely is outside the scope of snort and most content scanners.
I see that even text/plain mails talking about the bug are "cleaned" by major
AVs. This is especially brain-dead behavior since all advisories clearly say
email is not a vector.
Due to the nature of JS, there are almost endless variations. Off the top of my
head:
- getElementById is not necessary; for example, use getElementsByName
- checkbox/radio + createTextRange is not the only way of triggering the bug
- infinite obfuscation using eval()
- infinite obfuscation using document.write()