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Re: WMF Exploit

From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc () comcast net>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:27:48 -0800

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 09:58:37AM -0600, Todd Towles wrote:

Ad wrote:

I don't think because here win98 doesn't recognize the .wmf extension.


Without installling a third-party image viewer, it is my understanding
that pre-Windows 2000 OS are less vulnerable. But most people do have
third-party image viewers installed and it is possible that these apps
make the OS attackable.


IE 6 displayed WMF files on a test Win98 system just fine for
me.

Remember, just because when you double-click on a WMF file
Windows Explorer doesn't know what to do with it does NOT mean
that when presented to IE in an <img> tag, it won't. Even trying
to open the file with IE doesn't mean anything. You need to
try it in a webpage.

For example, take your sample WMF, sample.wmf, and create
a test page, wmf.htm,

        <html>
        <head>
        <title>WMF Rendering Test</title>
        <head>
        <body>
        The WMF image should appear below.
        <p>
        <img src="sample.wmf" alt="Not processed!">
        </body>
        </html>

And load that into IE. Works for me on Win98.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark () alum mit edu
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Current thread:

WMF Exploit Colin Copley (Jan 03)
- Re: WMF Exploit Technica Forensis (Jan 04)
  - Re: WMF Exploit ad () heapoverflow com (Jan 04)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: WMF Exploit Todd Towles (Jan 04)
  - Re: WMF Exploit Georgi Guninski (Jan 04)
  - Re: WMF Exploit Crist J. Clark (Jan 04)
    - Re: WMF Exploit H D Moore (Jan 04)
- RE: WMF Exploit Todd Towles (Jan 04)
  - Re: WMF Exploit wac (Jan 11)
- RE: WMF Exploit Lauro, John (Jan 05)
  - Re: WMF Exploit Georgi Guninski (Jan 04)