[security-alerts] FW: [SA21401] Microsoft Management Console Cross-Site Scripting

["Kazennov, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Kazennov@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> TITLE:
> Microsoft Management Console Cross-Site Scripting
> 
> SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
> SA21401
> 
> VERIFY ADVISORY:
> http://secunia.com/advisories/21401/
> 
> CRITICAL:
> Highly critical
> 
> IMPACT:
> Cross Site Scripting, System access
> 
> WHERE:
> From remote
> 
> OPERATING SYSTEM:
> Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
> http://secunia.com/product/20/
> Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
> http://secunia.com/product/1/
> Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
> http://secunia.com/product/1177/
> Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
> http://secunia.com/product/21/
> 
> DESCRIPTION:
> A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be
> exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
> attacks.
> 
> The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the
> Microsoft Management Console (MMC) as HTML embedded resource files in
> the MMC library can be directly referenced from the Internet or
> Intranet zones via Internet Explorer.
> 
> Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary script code in
> context of the "My Computer" zone.
> 
> NOTE: Internet Explorer 5.01 users are vulnerable from URLs in the
> "Internet" Zone. Internet Explorer 6 SP1 users are by default only
> vulnerable from URLs in the "Intranet" Zone as access to local files
> is blocked.
> 
> SOLUTION:
> Apply patches.
> 
> Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4:
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=87fe4
c18-21dc-4d83-a1d8-503b92fdba2b
> 
> PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
> The vendor credits:
> * Yorick Koster, ITsec Security Services.
> * H D Moore
> * Tom Gilder
> 
> ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
> MS06-044 (KB917008):
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS06-044.mspx
>