Re: ActiveX security hole reported.

• To: davidg@ctt.bellcore.com
• Subject: Re: ActiveX security hole reported.
• From: Joe Shamblin <wjs@cs.duke.edu>
• Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 07:36:26 -0400 (EDT)
• cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, David Gonzalez <davidg@ctt.bellcore.com>
• In-Reply-To: <9608122036.AA09552@montana.ctt.bellcore.com>

On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 davidg@ctt.bellcore.com wrote:

> On the other hand, when I did this a second time, I did not get the
> first dialog box (the one about lacking signature). I did get two boxes
> very similar to the one about safe execute.

Remember the caveat on his page, or at least what should be taken as a 
caveat:

     Exploder, Fred's non-violent demonstration of Active X. 
		      ^^^^^^^^^^^
This is a mere example of the problems associated with the program. It 
appears to have MUCH more power at the OS level than it should. 

Joe

Joe Shamblin					wjs@cs.duke.edu
Systems	Administrator			Department of Computer Science
660-6582					Duke University

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