Re: Re: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability

["Frank de Wit" <frankdewit () home nl>]

don't start a disclosure - non disclosure thread again and again and again
please...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Feher Tamas" <etomcat () freemail hu>
To: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 9:23 AM
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Re: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability


> > Proof-of-Concept here:
> > http://www.zapthedingbat.com/security/ex01/vun1.htm
> >
> > Vendor Notified 09 December, 2003
>
> Unless the bug has already been exploited by malicious people, it was
> a highly irresponsible act to disclose it to the public, without giving
> Microsoft a reasonable timeframe to produce a fix. It may even qualify
> as a crime!
>
> Considering the simplicity of this URL faking trick, it will be certainly
see
> active use by scammers during this Christmas shopping season and
> thousands of people will be robbed of their online banking accounts,
> etc. The money will boost organized crime and the whole society will
> suffer. A patch would give customers at least a theoretical chance to
> protect themselves and the community.
>
> I certainly would not object to ZapDingbat getting sued for a few billion
> bucks by M$ or the US Gov't sending him to a long recreation at
> Guantanamo Bay. People like him discredit security research like
> nothing else and his acts contribute towards legislation that will curb
> people's right to investigate code.
>
> Regards: Tamas Feher.
>
>
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