Full Disclosure: Re: MSN Messenger is vulnerable to the shell: hole

["Lan Guy" <rlanguy () hotmail com>]

you are missing the point.
in the IE example a user goes to browse a page and then the is executed on
the users computer.

In the messenger and MS Word examples you have given the user is just
launching a process locally.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Ruderman" <jruderman () hmc edu>
To: <Full-Disclosure () lists netsys com>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 1:11 PM
Subject: [Full-disclosure] MSN Messenger is vulnerable to the shell: hole


> Clicking a shell:windows\notepad.exe link in MSN Messenger 6.2.0137
> launches Notepad.  MSN Messenger even recognizes shell: as a protocol
> and helpfully hyperlinks the URL.
>
> Ctrl+clicking a shell:windows\notepad.exe link in Microsoft Word
> 10.2627.3311 launches Notepad.
>
> What others Windows programs (browsers, e-mail clients, IM clients, word
> processors, etc.) are vulnerable to the shell: hole?
>
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