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09-07-2004, 16:25 door Anoniem

De oorzaak van de bug: geen Mozilla/Firefox maar Windows XP SP1 http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/07/08/2327246.shtml?tid=78&tid=27&tid=31 The hole Specifically the vulnerability is a feature: it allows Windows programs to be run remotely through clicking on a link like one of these. The links use the shell: command to run arbitrary Windows programs or, at its most destructive, a denial of service attack on an individual machine by opening up programs that don't exist. The kicker is that this isn't even a problem with Mozilla; it's a problem with Windows Explorer. Windows XP Service Pack 1 was supposed to have closed this hole, but apparently it is still functioning and leaving Windows systems open to remote attack. So the Mozilla team worked to patch a hole that had little to do with their project. Is this really a security hole? When Mozilla receives a shell: request, it passes it on to an external handler in Windows. The "fix" for this is to disable this ...

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