Re: RE: BAD NEWS: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-032

["Dimitri Limanovski" <dlimanov () sct com>]

I agree that firewall is not the place to catch this. Any properly
configured HIPS should be able to catch this or nay other
similar-configured exploit without any issues though.
We have OKENA and simple rule to prohibit (or prompt) program
executions from within IE has stopped this (and dozen of others)
exploit from working. FWIW, McAfee caught it as well, identifying it
as Exploit-CodeBase but I'm sure this can be easily bypassed with
little coding.
Thanks,

Dimitri



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  |       To:       Drew Copley <dcopley () eeye com>                                                               |
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On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Drew Copley wrote:
> The only sure way to detect this, I already wrote about [to
Bugtraq]. That
> is by setting a firewall rule which blocks the dangerous mimetype
string
> [Content-Type: application/hta]. Everything else in the exploit can
change.

Just so we are clear, the firewall wouldn't tbe he right place to
catch
this because that string could be split by packet fragmentation, so
you'd
need to look for it at an application level, after the data stream
has been reassembled.

Of course, if anyone thinks it is easier to protect their browser with
a
proxy than fix the browser they've got other issues.

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