Current Activity - Insecure Loading of Dynamic Link Libraries in Windows Applications

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US-CERT Current Activity

Insecure Loading of Dynamic Link Libraries in Windows Applications

Original release date: August 25, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Last revised: August 25, 2010 at 12:01 pm


US-CERT is aware of a class of vulnerabilities related to how some
Windows applications may load external dynamic link libraries (DLLs).
When an application loads a DLL without specifying a fully qualified
path name, Windows will attempt to locate the DLL by searching a
defined set of directories. If an application does not securely load
DLL files, an attacker may be able to cause the affected application
to load an arbitrary library.

By convincing a user to open a file from a location that is under an
attacker's control, such as a USB drive or network share, a remote
attacker may be able to exploit this vulnerability. Exploitation of
this vulnerability may result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Additional information regarding this vulnerability can be found in
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#707943. US-CERT encourages users and
administrators to review the vulnerability note and consider
implementing the following workarounds until fixes are released by
affected vendors
  * disable loading libraries from WebDAV and remote network shares
  * disable the WebClient service
  * block outgoing SMB traffic

US-CERT will provide updates when additional details become available.

Relevant Url(s):
<http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/707943>

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http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#insecure_loading_of_dynamic_link

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