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Double clicking on MS Office documents from Windows Explorer may execute arbitrary programs in some cases
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski () GUNINSKI COM>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 16:49:10 +0300
Georgi Guninski security advisory #21, 2000 Double clicking on MS Office dpocuments from Windows Explorer may execute arbitrary programs in some cases Systems affected: MS Office 2000, Win98/Win2000 probably other applications Risk: Medium Date: 18 September 2000 Legal Notice: This Advisory is Copyright (c) 2000 Georgi Guninski. You may distribute it unmodified. You may not modify it and distribute it or distribute parts of it without the author's written permission. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this advisory and program are my own and not of any company. The usual standard disclaimer applies, especially the fact that Georgi Guninski is not liable for any damages caused by direct or indirect use of the information or functionality provided by this advisory or program. Georgi Guninski, bears no responsibility for content or misuse of this advisory or program or any derivatives thereof. Description: If certain DLLs are present in the current direcotory and the user double clicks on a MS Office Document or launch the document from "Start | Run" then the DLLs are executed. This allows executing native code and may lead to taking full control over user's computer. It also works on remote UNC shares. Details: If either of the following files: riched20.dll or msi.dll (other DLLs also may do, don't know) are present in the current directory, double clicking on an Office document in the current directory executes the code in DllMain() of the above DLLs. (Excel seems not to work with riched20.dll but works with msi.dll). I could not make this work from HTML and IE, if you can, please let me know. Demonstration: 1) Download dll1.cpp from http://www.guninski.com/dll1.cpp and build it. I discourage downloading native code from unknown site, but you may try at your own risk the compiled version: http://www.guninski.com/dll1.dll 2) Rename dll1.dll to riched20.dll 3) Place riched20.dll in a directory of your choice 4) Close all Office applications 5) From Windows Explorer double click on an Office document (preferably MS Word document) in the directory containg riched20.dll Workaround: Do not double click on Office documents or use "Start | Run ... office.doc". Instead start the Office application from "Start Menu" and then use "File | Open" Regards, Georgi Guninski http://www.guninski.com
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