Jesper Johansson's Blog : Mitigations

A better, more reliable, work-around for the Microsoft Video Control Vulnerability

Jesper's Blog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:09:00 GMT

For the past few days I've been following the Microsoft Video Control Vulnerability with interest. Basically, it's another vulnerable ActiveX control that needs killbitted. Last night, Microsoft posted a work-around which involves using a Group...(read more)

You need to manually undo your MS08-078 mitigations

Jesper's Blog — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:57:00 GMT

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Mitigate the Image Uploader Vulnerabilities

Jesper's Blog — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:07:00 GMT

The big security news this week is the six vulnerabilities found in various image uploader ActiveX controls. In case you haven't seen the news , there are exploits available publicly for remote vulnerabilities in five different ActiveX controls. US...(read more)