Small blurp I came around; when Wehntrust creates the autostart key
it forgets to correctly quote the string in the key and thus may
trigger an autostart of c:\program.bat|exe|com up-on reboot... [2]
In this case, the system will successively expand the string when
interpreting the file path, until a module is encountered to execute.
The string used in the above example would be interpreted as follows:
[1] http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-November/038789.
html
[2] Only a real issue in Windows 2000, WinXP restricted
users don't have the right to write to c:[3] http://secdev.zoller.lu
[4] http://www.wehnus.com/
Small blurp I came around; when Wehntrust creates the autostart key
it forgets to correctly quote the string in the key and thus may
trigger an autostart of c:\program.bat|exe|com up-on reboot... [2]
Quoting [1] :
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c:\program files\sub dir\program.exe,
In this case, the system will successively expand the string when
interpreting the file path, until a module is encountered to execute.
The string used in the above example would be interpreted as follows:
c:\program.exe
c:\program files\sub.exe
c:\program files\sub dir\program.exe
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[1] http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-November/038789.
html
[2] Only a real issue in Windows 2000, WinXP restricted
users don't have the right to write to c:[3] http://secdev.zoller.lu
[4] http://www.wehnus.com/
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