Re: Microsoft's Binary Planting Clean-Up Mission

[paul.szabo () sydney edu au]

Dear Mitja,

In your blog
http://blog.acrossecurity.com/2011/09/microsofts-binary-planting-clean-up.html
you wrote:
  Change #1: No "file://" Inside "http://";
    Microsoft changed the behavior of Internet Explorer such that a web
    page (served via http://) can't display the content of a shared
    folder (served via file://) in a frame/iframe. This is good ...
  Change #2: No "file://" From "http://";
    Not allowing a web page loaded via http:// to open a file:// URL
    blocks this attack vector and this is good. ...

When were those IE changes made: as part of MS11-057 maybe?
I could not find any references to such a change.

Thanks, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz () maths usyd edu au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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