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[Full-Disclosure] Re: Round One: "DLL Proxy" Attack Easily Hijacks SSL From Internet Explorer



Summary:
A LoadLibrary / LoadLibraryEx weakness makes SSL on Internet Explorer very
vulnerable to a ?DLL proxy? attack. If exploited, unencrypted data can be
intercepted before Internet Explorer (IE) uses the SSL module to encrypt the
data. Therefore, confidential information such as bank accounts and
passwords could be stolen. Many applications are vulnerable to ?DLL proxy?
attack with different ramifications.

This is OLD news. Where have you been? It's been used for as long as LoadLibrary has existed by programs monitoring other programs. There are dozens of other ways of reading data from another program before and after data is encrypted/decrypted. I could write a dozen similar advisories and post them here and to BugTraq but I won't because they're OLD news.


Vendor Status:
Microsoft was informed of this weakness in December 2003. As of February 5,
2004, Microsoft has not provided any indication that they intend to provide
any remedies for the affected Windows configurations.

Of course they won't because this is OLD news.


The subject of your email is "Round One," so I hope your next rounds will have some new information.

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