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[Full-disclosure] Internet Explorer Ver6.0.2800.1106 vulnerability


  • From: angray at beeb.net (Aaron Gray)
  • Subject: [Full-disclosure] Internet Explorer Ver6.0.2800.1106 vulnerability
  • Date: Tue May 30 01:10:06 2006

>No *obvious* way to inject code.  Don't rule out something like this 
>working:
>
><script>
>var exploit96 = "some long-ass string that's just printable-96 chars"
>var wwidth = (window.innerWidth)?yadda yadda...
>
>and exploit96 just happens to end up someplace interesting/useful, and
>gets successfully interpreted as executable code.....
>
>A few years ago, somebody found an interesting overflow-the-environment
>bug in a lot of telnetd's.  Of course, the *tough* part was the fact
>that you had to cram literally 45 megabytes or so of crap down telnetd's
>throat first, to get the memory layout where you needed it for when
>something overflowed a buffer......

Ah, I am enlightened.

Pritty bloody tricky thing though.

Aaron