Re: [vox-tech] New phishing vulnerability

[Ken Bloom <MAPSkabloom@ucdavis.edu>]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:52:04PM -0800, Larry Ozeran wrote:
> At 03:53 PM 12/11/03 -0800, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 15:47, Larry Ozeran wrote:
> >> At 11:25 PM 12/9/03 -0600, you wrote:
> >> >> I use old browsers. MSIE 5.50 and Netscape 4.77 both work OK for me.
> >> >> (i.e.
> http://www.microsoft.com%01@zapthedingbat.com/security/ex01/vun2.htm
> >> >> displays on the address line for both)
> >> >
> >> <snip>
> >> 
> >> >On IE 5.0 on Windows, there was nothing after http://www.microsoft.com ...
> >> and actually, if I go into the URL bar on IE and type
> >> http://www.microsoft.com, I will see in the history, almost the same link I
> >> see in Mozilla, except with the %01 replaced by a box (standard unprintable
> >> character)
> >> 
> >> On IE 5.5 in Windows, I get the full address. Maybe MS fixed it in 5.5,
> >> then for some reason unfixed in 6.0?
> >
> >You can't replicate the problem by just pasting the link above into your
> address
> >bar. You need to access the link from here:
> >
> >http://www.zapthedingbat.com/security/ex01/vun1.htm
> >
> >Press the "Test Exploit" button.
> 
> The effect appears to require active script. Even going to that link, IE
> 5.5 won't go anywhere from the button with scripting turned off (how I
> default my browsers). It happens to be one of my pet peeves when coders use
> scripting when a simple link will do.
> 
> In NS 4.77, there is no button even with scripting on.

The button requires scripting, not the exploit.
The button read the code, and you'll see that the JavaScript way of 
demonstrating the exploit is easier to stick in an HTML file than it 
would be to actually try and stick an ASCII character #1 in there.

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