June 19, 2021
Ethical Hacking | Penetration Testing
It turns out that the DLL vulnerability (Binary Planting) under Windows was only the tip of the iceberg. DLL libraries aren’t the only things that are seem to be vulnerable; EXE files also appear to be affected and the DLL workarounds proposed by Microsoft do not help.
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Source:[TheHSecurity]
After HD Moore released details last week about the DLL problem under Windows, along with a testing tool, an increasing number of affected applications and their matching exploits have been reported. In addition to Firefox and Opera, vulnerable programs include such popular applications as PowerPoint, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, VLC, uTorrent and Wireshark – in each case, the current version is affected. They all use an insecure way of loading DLLs in which at an early stage the search order contains the current directory – a directory that could be on a network device.
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Source:[The H Security]
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