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Re: Executable installers are vulnerable^WEVIL (case 20): TrueCrypt's installers allow arbitrary (remote) code execution and escalation of privilege

From: "Stefan Kanthak" <stefan.kanthak () nexgo de>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:32:07 +0100

"Michel Arboi" <michel.arboi () gmail com> wrote:

On 11 January 2016 at 15:37, Stefan Kanthak <stefan.kanthak () nexgo de> wrote:

Which but does not mean/imply that everybody abandons TrueCrypt.


The project has been abruptly killed by the developers without any
clear explanation. There's something fishy and it cannot be trusted
anymore.
Spend your time and energy on forks like CipherShed or VeraCrypt!


See <http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/58> alias CVE-2016-1281

And see <http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Nov/101> again:

| almost all executable installers (and self-extractors as well
| as "portable" applications too) for Windows have a well-known
| (trivial, trivial to detect and trivial to exploit) vulnerability:

STOP posting on top, but DON'T stop reading on top, read that
page COMPLETELY and notice the download(s) offered at its end!


AFAIK, TrueCrypt 7.2 is only capable of decryption. It is provided so
that users can migrate their data to another system.


and has a vulnerable installer, like all its predecessors and all
forks of TrueCrypt.

stay tuned
Stefan Kanthak

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