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Re: Fwd: nVidia.com [Url Redirection flaw]


From: mac.user () mac hush com
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:31:35 -0400

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Lorenzo, I apologise for any confusion - that question was geared
toward Valdis, not you.  I never meant to suggest or imply with any
level of sarcasm that your actual profession was to independently
discover and report URL redirection attacks against random internet
bound hosts; simply I was curious how much Valdis was paid to do
this.  Once again, sorry.

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:54:23 -0400 Lorenzo Vogelsang
<vogelsang.lorenzo () gmail com> wrote:
I don't know if this bug it's a "serious one" or not, i only
posted a "url
redirection flaw" and i think that its dangerousness and
importance should
be inferred from the type of vulnerability and the site which is
affected...
I am still a beginner in the field of security , i still have much
to
learn.. Neverthless i think that the open redirect vulnerabilty
it's
serious, because "This vulnerability is used in phishing attacks
to get
users to visit malicious sites without realizing it." (
http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Open_redirect) , this flaw increase
its
dangerousness if the site it's trusted and , IMHO, i think tha
nVidia ( it
is better or worse than ati i don't know ) is trusted and can
easily used by
an attacker or a phisher to spread malicous software or to take
similar
actions. Moreover with Xss flaw the open redirect become more
serious!
(always IMHO)
However the admin was alerted, so i've done my job....

Regards

Lorenzo Vogelsang


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From: <mac.user () mac hush com>
Date: 2009/3/25
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] nVidia.com [Url Redirection flaw]
To: vogelsang.lorenzo () gmail com, valdis.kletnieks () vt edu
Cc: full-disclosure () lists grok org uk


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What is this field you brag experience in?  Independent
Professional Open URL Redirection Vulnerability Reporting?  Can
you
cite any of these statistics you're talking about because to be
quite honest we think you're making this up, along with everything
else.  Linking to some actual statistics will improve your full-
disclosure credibility greatly.  How did you determine the 50/50
probability or is that just based up on made-up numbers as well?
I
thought Len Rose removed all the trolls from this list, why are
you
still here?

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:00:27 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:21:42 BST, Lorenzo Vogelsang said:
Despite i've told to nvidia only the "url redirection"  flaw i
think
that, if "url redirection" will be solved all the xss
inherently
vulnerabilites will be solved too.

Actual experience in the field has shown that in general, if you
report a URL
redirection issue to the maintainers of a website, a large
percentage of the
time they will *only* fix the problem with URL redirection,
unless
you make it
clear to them *and they understand* that the URL redirection is
only one
symptom of a larger XSS issue.

I'll give it a 50-50 chance that somebody will get to send NVidia
an email
saying "Good, you fixed the URL problem.  Now about that XSS...."
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