Bugtraq: Re: POS#1 Self-Executing HTML: Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 Part III

[Art Manion <amanion () cert org>]

--On Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:02 AM -0700 Kurt Seifried
<kurt () seifried org> wrote:

> > In our never-ending quest for entertainment, we commece from
> > this date forward to end-2004 our POS series of findings. That
> > is the 'perfect operating system'. Today we debut and regurgitate
> > new and not so new for fun as follows. A warm up for the New Year if
> > you will !:
> This is easy to avoid. Just set the kill bit for the affected Active
> component, Adodb.Stream for which the CLSID is
> 4B106874-DD36-11D0-8B44-00A024DD9EFF.
{4B106874-DD36-11D0-8B44-00A024DD9EFF} is the Local Troubleshooter control.

The ADODB.Stream control, an important part of several current IE exploits,
is {00000566-0000-0010-8000-00AA006D2EA4}.

MS KB article about the kill bit:

  <http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q240/7/97.asp>

Disable Active scripting for untrusted sites.


  - Art