RE: Pressing CTRL in IE is dangerous - Sandblad advisory #8

From: GreyMagic Software (securityat_private)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 07:54:35 PDT

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    Microsoft and Andreas suggest the following workarounds:
    
    >2. disable "allow paste operations via script" (best)
    >3. disable active scripting
    
    Using these workarounds is currently futile for users with Office installed.
    The clipboard text can be set regardless of configuration as we've shown in
    GM#007-IE, and disabling scripting can be easily circumvented as we've shown
    in GM#005-IE.
    
    These vulnerabilities have been disclosed 3.5 months ago and still haven't
    been patched.
    
    References:
    http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/gm005-ie/
    http://sec.greymagic.com/adv/gm007-ie/
    
    But even without these workarounds the severity of this vulnerability is
    low-medium at best since it requires a non-trivial user interaction.
    
    - GMS
    



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