full-disclosure - Re: More information on ZERT patch for ANI 0day

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Message-ID: <46112CAC.4020801@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:17:48 +0100
From: "James (njan) Eaton-Lee" <james.mailing@...il.com>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: More information on ZERT patch for ANI 0day


Gadi Evron wrote:
> Although eEye has released a third-party patch that will prevent the
> latest exploit from working, it doesn't fix the flawed copy routine. It
> simply requires that any cursors loaded must reside within the Windows
> directory (typically C:\WINDOWS\ or C:\WINNT\). This approach should
> successfully mitigate most "drive-by's," but might be bypassed by an
> attacker with access to this directory.

I'm thinking that an attacker with write access to %systemroot% probably 
has juicier, simpler targets to attack (which potentially let them run 
code in a higher security context) than animated cursors.

  - James.

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