CERT recently issued an advisory about this vulnerability (CA-2003-18,
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-18.html) that said that setting the
Internet Explorer 'Run ActiveX Controls' security setting to disable in
appropriate IE security zones would prevent exploitation of this in web
pages and HTML-format email. This sort of makes sense, since media player
can be used as an ActiveX control.
Can anyone confirm that this is really true, though?
Jeff Johnson
Technical Development Analyst, MoF IMG
Jeff.S.Johnson (at) gems1.gov.bc (dot) ca [email concealed]
(250) 356-6968
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-18.html) that said that setting the
Internet Explorer 'Run ActiveX Controls' security setting to disable in
appropriate IE security zones would prevent exploitation of this in web
pages and HTML-format email. This sort of makes sense, since media player
can be used as an ActiveX control.
Can anyone confirm that this is really true, though?
Jeff Johnson
Technical Development Analyst, MoF IMG
Jeff.S.Johnson (at) gems1.gov.bc (dot) ca [email concealed]
(250) 356-6968
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