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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0704021310080.15368-100000@linuxbox.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:10:56 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org>
To: "James (njan) Eaton-Lee" <james.mailing@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: More information on ZERT patch for ANI 0day

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, James (njan) Eaton-Lee wrote:
> 
> 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.

http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/3636


> 
>   - James.
> 
> -- 
>    James (njan) Eaton-Lee | UIN: 10807960 | http://www.jeremiad.org
> 
>     "All at sea again / And now my hurricanes
>     Have brought down this ocean rain / To bathe me again"
> 
>   https://www.bsrf.org.uk | ca: https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3
> -- 
> 

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/