A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Windows, which could be exploited by attackers to take complete control of an affected system with MS Internet Explorer 7 installed. This issue is caused by an input validation error when processing specially crafted arguments passed to certain registered URI handlers (e.g. "mailto:"), which could be exploited by remote attackers to inject and execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page using a vulnerable application (e.g. Netscape or mIRC).
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Billy (BK) Rios, Carsten H. Eiram (Secunia), Aviv Raff (finjan) and Petko Petkov (gnucitizen).
ChangeLog
2007-07-26 : Initial release
2007-10-10 : Updated Title and References
2007-10-15 : Updated Solution
2007-11-13 : Updated Solution
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