On Jan 14, 2008 9:23 PM, Richard Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (9) HIGH: Microsoft Visual FoxPro Multiple ActiveX Controls Remote Command 
> Execution
> Affected:
> Microsoft Visual FoxPro version 6 and prior
>
> Description: Microsoft Visual FoxPro is an integrated development
> environment for the FoxPro database language. Several ActiveX controls
> installed by the application contain arbitrary command execution
> vulnerabilities. These controls provide methods explicitly designed to
> execute commands upon request, and do not verify the caller. A malicious
> web page that instantiated one of these controls could exploit one of
> these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
> the current user. Multiple proofs-of-concept are publicly available for
> these vulnerabilities. Note that these vulnerabilities may be related
> to issues discussed in previous editions of @RISK.

Solution: use Firefox.  No ActiveX :-)

-- 
Paul


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