After 'treasure Hunt,' Hacker Releases IE Attack Code


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May 16, 2008

After 'treasure Hunt,' Hacker Releases IE Attack Code

One week after hiding Internet Explorer attack code on his Web site, security researcher Aviv Raff has posted details on how to launch the attack.

The bug lies in the "Print Table of Links" feature, which lets IE users print out a Web page along with a list of all the links on the page tacked onto the end. Raff discovered that if an attacker added special scripting code to a Web page, he could then run unauthorized software on the PCs of IE users who printed using this feature.

The flaw affects IE 7 and IE 8, Raff said. Security vendor Secunia said that the bug also affects IE 6.

Because the hack requires that the user be tricked into following so many steps -- not only visiting a Web page, but then printing a page with this feature selected -- Secunia has rated it as a "less critical."

Raff said that the flaw could be a more serious issue if hackers were to add the code to Web pages that were frequently printed out, such as those on Wikipedia.

The bug has not been patched by Microsoft, which was notified of the issue just last week.

Raff disclosed the flaw in an unusual way, embedding it in his own Web site and then inviting other hackers to come and find it. He called this a "treasure hunt."

The Israeli hacker said that the treasure hunt idea came from a local custom of playing such games during Israel's Independence Day. The contest was won Tuesday by someone calling himself "George the Greek."

Microsoft didn't get much time to fix the vulnerability, but Raff said he didn't feel that Microsoft would address the issue quickly unless he went public with the vulnerability.

When he has followed Microsoft's responsible disclosure guidelines in the past, the company has been too slow to fix bugs, he said.

Microsoft is thinking about putting a fix for the problem in an upcoming security update, the company said in a statement. It too downplayed the risk. "Our investigation has shown an attack would require significant user interaction," the company said. " An attacker would need to convince a user to select a non-default printing option and print a malicious web page in order for an attack to be successful."

Though Raff's attack code has been posted to the Millworm Web site, Microsoft says it's not heard of any attacks that exploit this vulnerability.

Source: PC World

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