Re: Round One: "DLL Proxy" Attack Easily Hijacks SSL from Internet Explorer

[Peter Pentchev <roam () ringlet net>]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:31:25PM -0600, Ward Taylor wrote:
> Hi:
> There is a win2k registry setting which allows the default .dll search order
> to be changed.
> Key:
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager
> Value Name:
> SafeDllSearchMode
> Data:
> 0x1

Yeah, but won't this break a lot of programs that install their DLL's in
their own directories by design, so that they may be installed by users
without administrative privileges on older versions of Windows?  I know
that Windows XP "shadows" %WINDIR% under "Documents and
Settings\username", but this is a recent development, and there are
still an awful lot of programs which rely on the 'program directory
first' search order.

G'luck,
Peter

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