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Re: Re : [Firefox Bug 302187] New: Shared section vulnerability when ope

from [sylvain . roger] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: Re : [Firefox Bug 302187] New: Shared section vulnerability when opening microsoft office document resulting in DoS
Date: 28 Jul 2005 17:54:41 -0000 
As I got some questions about this I think I need to precise it.
I can say for sure now : It is not a firefox vulnerability but Microsoft Office 
vulnerability. Firefox is just here as an example.
The vulnerability is that when a winword.exe process is created from another 
application (like firefox.exe) it creates a shared section called 
\BaseNameObjects\Mso97SharedDgXXXXXXXX which has write rights for everyone. 
This allows to write arbitrary data on the shared section resulting in a denial 
of service of all opened Microsoft Office applications. It may be necessary 
sometimes to reboot the machine in order to use again the Office applications.
Microsoft just answers it is a technical issue and not a security issue
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