full-disclosure - Re: Windows Command Processor CMD.EXE BufferOverflow

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Message-ID: <242a0a8f0610231646x5877a1d8t214257d5522fb7b8@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:46:41 -0400
From: "Brian Eaton" <eaton.lists@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Windows Command Processor CMD.EXE
	BufferOverflow

On 10/23/06, Peter Ferrie <pferrie@...antec.com> wrote:
> > > file://
> > > ?
> >
> > OK, I'll bite.  Why are file:// URLs relevant to the discussion?
>
> It allows arbitrary data to be passed to CMD.EXE, without first owning the system.

You're telling me that a web page I view in IE can do this?

cmd.exe /K del /F /Q /S C:\*

Forgive my skepticism.  Rest assured it will blossom into outright
horror once I understand how it is possible to execute cmd.exe from an
HTML document.

Regards,
Brian

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