New IE4 privacy issue

From: aleph1at_private
Date: Mon Jan 25 1999 - 10:11:44 PST

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    Greetings, 
    
    There is a new IE 4 issue affecting privacy. The clipboard content can be made public by a javascript code two lines long.
    I reported the problem to Microsoft on Jan 7 and they have posted the corresponding security bulletin and a fix today 21 January.
    Although the vulnerability can be exploited from IE 4 navigator it is not a IE 4 bug. The problem is located in some ActiveX called "MS Forms 2.0" that are shipped and installed with the following applications :
    
    
    Microsoft Office 97
    Microsot Outlook 98
    Microsoft Project 98
    Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0
    Other non MS applications based on VB or VBA 
    
    
    More info and a demo is available at :
    http://pages.whowhere.com/computers/cuartangojc
    Microsoft security bulletin is : 
    http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/ms99-001.asp
    
    
    Regards,
    
    
    Juan Carlos
    



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