[Esd-l] Extensions to poison: .wmv and possibly .wma

John Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Fri Mar 22 21:28:01 PST 2002


On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 10:15, Brett Glass wrote:
> See the description below for details....
> 
> --Brett Glass
> 
> >GreyMagic Security Advisory GM#002-IE
> >By GreyMagic Software, Israel.
> >22 Mar 2002.
> >
> >WMV/WMA generally plays under Windows Media Player and has the ability to
> >include a form of script that lets developers control various aspects of the
> >movie.

wma and wmv have been added to the default MANGLE_EXTENSIONS list in the
development sanitizer. I really ought to do a release this weekend.

> > <!-- <DEFANGED_STYLE>
> >a, img { display:none; }
> > --> </DEFANGED_STYLE>
> >Hello, Eudora.
> ><DEFANGED_IMG dynsrc="file://C:/Progra~1/Qualcomm/Eudora/Attach/gmlaunch.wmv">

As you can see, this particular variant of exploit wouldn't work if
DEFANG_WEBBUGS is enabled.

Thanks, Brett.

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