full-disclosure - Re: Downloads Folder: A Binary Planting Minefield

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Message-ID: <CAH8yC8nSoJe2Fa2d616vmb+JMna2gAWXvRenxK=tCn9qBuDphQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:32:14 -0500
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: Kyle Creyts <kyle.creyts@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, cert@...t.org
Subject: Re: Downloads Folder: A Binary Planting Minefield

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Kyle Creyts <kyle.creyts@...il.com> wrote:
> Did this talk _really_ get accepted at RSA? Wow.
While other conferences might be more appropriate, the acceptance
underlines the problem with insecure library loading on Windows. Its
still a big problem.

Windows is not alone, and Linux suffers similar. See Tim Brown's
"Breaking the links: Exploiting the linker,"
www.nth-dimension.org.uk/pub/BTL.pdf.

Jeff

> On Feb 17, 2012 11:41 AM, "ACROS Security Lists" <lists@...os.si> wrote:
>>
>>
>> This blog post reveals a bit of our research and provides an advance
>> notification of
>> a largely unknown remote exploit technique on Windows. More importantly,
>> it provides
>> instructions for protecting your computers from this technique while
>> waiting for the
>> affected software to correct its behavior.
>>
>>
>> http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2012/02/downloads-folder-binary-planting.html

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