full-disclosure - Re: Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers' Heaven

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Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 13:15:35 -0700
From: "Joshua Gimer" <jgimer@...il.com>
To: "Eliah Kagan" <degeneracypressure@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Internet Explorer 7 - Still Spyware Writers'
	Heaven

If Microsoft is not planning on providing a fix for this until Vista, I can
see a worm coming from this. Forgive me if I don't know how this works in
the windows world, but when it is looking for this DLL, does it take the
first one that it finds within your path; like in UNIX? Or does it look in
all directories within your path and then decide? I am guessing the former,
but I am just clarifying.

On 11/3/06, Eliah Kagan <degeneracypressure@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/2/06, Roger A. Grimes wrote:
> > So, if you're statement is accurate that malware would need to be placed
> > in a directory identified by the PATH statement, we can relax because
> > that would require Administrator access to pull off. Admin access would
> > be needed to modify the PATH statement appropriately to include the
> > user's desktop or some other new user writable location or Admin access
> > would be needed to copy a file into the locations indicated by the
> > default PATH statement.
>
> It would not require *administrator* access--non-administrator users
> can still add things to their own PATHs, just not to the universal,
> system PATH. (See Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment
> Variables.)
>
> -Eliah
>

-- 
Thx
Joshua Gimer

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