[Esd-l] Modifying the sanitizer to scan for INCLUDETEXT fields

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Sun Oct 6 11:52:01 PDT 2002


On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Brett Glass wrote:

> You may also want to scan for an INCLUDEPICTURE field. According
> to some recently published articles, it's potentially even more
> dangerous than INCLUDETEXT because it can contain an arbitrary URL
> that can be generated from VBA variables and/or function calls.

Okay, I generated a sample document to see what they look like and
added a check for them to the macro scanner.

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