Re: Javascript in IE may spoof the whole screen

[Miguel Angel Rodriguez Jodar <rodriguj () atc us es>]

Actually, both examples work. At least on MSIE 6.0 under Windows 98SE. The
original message states that vulnerable systems are IE 5.5 and later...

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Miguel Angel Rodriguez Jodar | http://icaro.fie.us.es
Area de Arquitectura y Tecnologia de Computadores
Universidad de Sevilla


On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Julian Hall wrote:

> Georgi Guninski wrote:
>
> > Georgi Guninski security advisory #50, 2001
> >
> > Javascript in IE may spoof the whole screen
> >
> > Systems affected:
> > IE 5.5/6.0 on Windows, probably earlier versions
>
> [...]
>
> > Demonstration:
> >
> > Image moving over download/open dialog:
> > http://www.guninski.com/opf2.html
> > BSOD emulation:
> > http://www.guninski.com/bsod1.html
>
> Neither of these demonstrations function correctly in IE 5.0; they produce script
> error message boxes, reporting that the 'object does not support the requested
> method'.  I don't know whether that means IE 5.0 isn't vulnerable or not...