DLL hijacking problem

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 03:16:14PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This DLL hijacking problem goes from simmering to boiling pretty fast
>right now:
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2269637.mspx
>The exploit DB fills rapidly in the last couple of days:
>http://www.exploit-db.com/search/?action=search&filter_page=1&filter_description=DLL+Hijacking&filter_author=&filter_platform=0&filter_type=0&filter_port=&filter_osvdb=&filter_cve=
>
>Given
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff919712%28VS.85%29.aspx
>
>I propose to change all calls to
>
>  LoadLibrary ("any-Win32-system.dll")
>
>to (basically) 
>
>  GetSystemDirectory (path);
>  strcat (path, "\\any-Win32-system.dll");
>  LoadLibrary (path);
>
>Or does anybody think this is overreacting?

No, I was thinking the same thing after seeing the discussion of the
problem in Slashdot.

cgf