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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Xeen on 12 December 2003, 02:38

Title: New embarrasing bug discovered in IE
Post by: Xeen on 12 December 2003, 02:38
A new flaw has been found in Microshit's Internet Explorer.

Generally, spoofers lure customers to bogus e-commerce Web sites with the hope of capturing personal information, such as Social Security (news - web sites) and credit-card numbers. A consumer entering www.amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com) would be redirected to the fake Web site, but "www.amazon.com" would appear in the address bar.

 
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The vulnerability is caused by an input validation error, "which can be exploited by including the '%01' URL encoded representation after the username and right before the '@' character in an URL" Secunia explains in its advisory.  


Looks like Microsoft just cant write software. Period.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=5&u=/nf/20031211/tc_nf/22845&sid=95573505 (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1212&e=5&u=/nf/20031211/tc_nf/22845&sid=95573505)
Title: New embarrasing bug discovered in IE
Post by: WMD on 12 December 2003, 05:51
Another one?  Jesus.

It doesn't end, does it?
Title: New embarrasing bug discovered in IE
Post by: Enmity on 12 December 2003, 08:30
Looks like Mozilla ain't immune
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4078 (http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4078)
Title: New embarrasing bug discovered in IE
Post by: Zombie9920 on 12 December 2003, 12:59
Ha
Title: New embarrasing bug discovered in IE
Post by: Refalm on 12 December 2003, 16:25
Oh... that's too easy  (http://smile.gif)

It isn't a flaw anyways, and it's not even Internet Explorer or Mozilla's fault.

Example:

http://www.cnn.com%[email protected]:81/dnserror.html (http://www.cnn.com%[email protected]:81/dnserror.html)

[ December 12, 2003: Message edited by: Refalm ]

Title: New embarrasing bug discovered in IE
Post by: flap on 12 December 2003, 20:00
It is a flaw. The flaw being that the characters after the %01 character aren't displayed in the address bar (in vulnerable browsers).

[ December 12, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]

Title: New embarrasing bug discovered in IE
Post by: WMD on 13 December 2003, 22:15
quote:
Originally posted by Enmity:
Looks like Mozilla ain't immune
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4078 (http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4078)



I ran the test in Mozilla 1.5 and I don't have the flaw. \o/