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RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll Jul 14 2004 11:50PM
psz maths usyd edu au (Paul Szabo) (2 replies)
RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll Jul 16 2004 04:22AM
Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov (D Yu Bolkhovityanov inp nsk su) (1 replies)
RE: [ok] [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll Jul 16 2004 07:29PM
Curt Purdy (purdy tecman com)
Dmitry Yu wrote:
> > Being curious, on Win2k, I copied cmd.exe (from
> winnt\system32) as xyz.pif;
> > then (right-click) Properties, Program crashes explorer. Is
> this related to
> > IconHandler, and is it exploitable?
>
> Disassembly window shows that there was an attempt to read dword
> at [EAX] (EAX=0). So at first glance this doesn't seem to be
> trivially
> exploitable, but I'm not a win32 expert, and intuition
> suggests that there
> must be a way.

One possible exploit is to simply place the file on your desktop.
explorer.exe goes to 100% cpu.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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[ reply ]
Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll Jul 15 2004 01:32AM
Jordan Cole (stilist) (stilist gmail com) (1 replies)
Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll Jul 15 2004 03:03AM
Nick FitzGerald (nick virus-l demon co uk) (1 replies)
Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Unchecked buffer in mstask.dll Jul 15 2004 08:09PM
Curt Purdy (purdy tecman com)


 

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