RE: AIM Password theft

["Andrew McKnight" <Andrew.McKnight () clg co uk>]

Is there a specific patch for this vulernability?  Windows Update is telling me I'm completely up to date but I'm still 
vulernable.

Andy.
IT Guy.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lothar Kimmeringer [mailto:bugtraq () kimmeringer de]
Sent: 24 September 2003 00:44
To: incidents () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: AIM Password theft


On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:53:59 -0400, Mark Coleman wrote:

> I just started investigating a report that appears to have merit of a 
> username/password theft of AIM accounts.
>
> Users are being directed to a web page located at www.haxr.org where the
> source appears to run a javascript program that is proportedly stealing
> AIM usernames/passwords/buddy lists.
>
> Does anyone have any information related to www. haxr.org or the 
> technique being used? 

The technique uses a flaw in Internet Explorer with the OBJECT-tag
allowing code to be executed locally that is loaded from a website.

The tag
<![CDATA[
<object data=tracker.php></object>
]]>
lets IE download a HTML-application that will be executed after
loading.

A testpage where you can test your locally installed Internet
Explorer for being vulnerable can be found at
http://www.heise.de/security/dienste/browsercheck/demos/ie/htacheck.shtml
If your installation is vulnerable, a program will be downloaded
to C:\browsercheck.exe that will executed afterwards leading to
a window popping up. The page is in German.


Regards, Lothar

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