full-disclosure - Re: Exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities on Internet Explorer 8

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Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 21:53:44 +0200
From: yersinia <yersinia.spiros@...il.com>
To: Freddie Vicious <fred.vicious@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities
	on Internet Explorer 8

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Freddie Vicious <fred.vicious@...il.com>wrote:

> Yes, I am aware of the JVM and the Flash AVM heap spray techniques, no
> DEP/ASLR there... But as you said, so far there's no known "catch-all"
> technique against IE8.
> Along with other security features (
> http://blogs.msdn.com/architecture/archive/2009/08/13/internet-explorer-8-rated-tops-against-malware-and-phishing-attacks.aspx)
> this basicly means that IE8 is the most secure web browser nowadays?
>
> Depends. IMHO Non exists the more secure browser, anyway (not exists the
more secure software, never ) . But exists the more secure  env on which the
browser run. There are some difference if i run firefox in windows xp and if
i run run firefox within a selinux guest account under Fedora.

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Jared DeMott <jared.demott@...ris.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm not aware of any catch-all technique just for IE8, though there are
>> a few common ones like return oriented programming.  Application
>> specific techniques are also common when third party extensions are
>> involved.
>>
>> --
>> __________________________________________
>> Jared D. DeMott
>> Principal Security Researcher
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Best wishes,
> Freddie Vicious
> http://twitter.com/viciousf
>
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