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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 01:44:33 +0200
From: Christian Sciberras <uuf6429@...il.com>
To: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: KeePass version 2.12 <= Insecure DLL
 Hijacking Vulnerability (dwmapi.dll)

That is what others said, yet it installed automatically on mine.
The only interaction was that I allowed it to be downloaded and
installed....not really geeky at all...

I must say you'll have to take my word on it.




On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:36 AM,  <paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au> wrote:
> Christian Sciberras <uuf6429@...il.com> wrote:
>
>>>> MS issued a patch quite some time ago.
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2264107
>
> That is not a "patch", not installed by default: is only for
> uber-geeks who manually install it. Was issued a week ago, in
> response to this kerfuffle, not "quite some time ago".
>
> Which setting of CWDIllegalInDllSearch did you choose: was it
> 0xFFFFFFFF which may be "safe", but is known to break Outlook
> (and others), as noted in
>
>  DLL hijacking vulnerabilities
>  http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9445
>
> (geeks can add further tweaks to the registry to fix).
>
> Cheers, Paul
>
> Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
> School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia
>

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