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Message-ID: <CB29D9DACA0D43B8BA2369C3B73DC67C@acros.si> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:24:16 +0200 From: "ACROS Security Lists" <lists@...os.si> To: <paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au> Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk Subject: Re: Microsoft's Binary Planting Clean-Up Mission Hi Paul, These two changes have been introduced earlier (sometime between April and August). We haven't noticed any mention of them in Microsoft's public documents. Cheers, Mitja > -----Original Message----- > From: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au [mailto:paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au] > Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 2:21 AM > To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk; lists@...os.si > Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft's Binary Planting > Clean-Up Mission > > Dear Mitja, > > In your blog > http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/09/microsofts-binary-planti ng-clean-up.html > you wrote: > Change #1: No "file://" Inside "http://" > Microsoft changed the behavior of Internet Explorer such > that a web > page (served via http://) can't display the content of a shared > folder (served via file://) in a frame/iframe. This is good ... > Change #2: No "file://" From "http://" > Not allowing a web page loaded via http:// to open a file:// URL > blocks this attack vector and this is good. ... > > When were those IE changes made: as part of MS11-057 maybe? > I could not find any references to such a change. > > Thanks, 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 > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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