Re: re: Microsoft Outlook Web Access URL Injection

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:27:25 PST, morning_wood said:
> looks like MS is NOT publicly releasing a fix for this, while they have the
> means and solution at hand.
> ( at least under IE )
> a kind reader sent this little snippet...
>
> "... was able to get Microsoft to provide us with a DLL
> to drop under IIS 6 to compare URL variable against the Host: header
> variable and do 302 to web root if they are not similar.  This fixed the
> problem, however, I doubt that Microsoft will make this patch available to
> the public."
>
> what happend to MS commitment to security???

They figured they'd spent the budget for the quarter for PR proclaiming their
commitment to security.  Remember - they're nowhere near as committed to
security as they are to the bottom line.  A $20M PR campaign will sway a lot
of managers, while a $200M project to actually fix things won't be noticed.
Which would *you* choose if you were them?

(Note that this is heavily dependent on corporate culture - for instance,
if some VP at Google tried that same money-saving stunt, he'd probably get
called in, pointed at the "Don't be evil" sign, and told to find some OTHER
way to save the $180M...  But as far as I know, there isn't any such sign
in Redmond....)

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