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Re: ActiveX

Subject: Re: ActiveX
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:15:01 -0700
Here's an ActiveX control vulnerability:

http://secunia.com/advisories/13578/
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2004/Dec/1012626.html

(Both links refer to the same issue)

Basically, a malicious website using an ActiveX control created by
Windows Media Player can, without any warning, verify the existence of
arbitrary files on a target machine, and in the case of WMA files,
change their contents.

No pop-ups, no 'ActiveX Installation' warnings - it just does it.

This is a realitively benign example - there are others that are much
more nasty - but this should suffice for a customer demonstration.

Enjoy,

-- 
Dave Killion, CISSP
Contributing Author, Configuring NetScreen Firewalls

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