Re: OE - news:// stupid url handler behavior

["Dave Korn" <davek_throwaway () hotmail com>]

Morning Wood wrote in news:BAY19-DAV2B7681DF5B766A5D8D2F9D92E0 () phx gbl
> Jan 4, 2006
> Donnie Werner
> http://exploitlabs.com
>
> Web Browser / Outlook Express - stupid url handler behavior
>
>
> I doubt this warrants a fix ( nor Advisory ) , but it is realy dumb,
> note the sidebar and titles in OE when testing.

  Except of course that it gives you a way to exploit that recent 
overly-long LIST response buffer overflow[*] by forcing a connection to your 
evil nntp server....  muhahaahahaaaa!

    cheers,
      DaveK

[*]  Looked it up now.  It's MS05-030.
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