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Re: Security-Assessment.com Advisory: Oracle JRE - java.net.URLConnection class - Same-of-Origin (SOP) Policy Bypass


From: Early Warning <seclist () mindedsecurity com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:22:29 +0200

Hey,
Michal thanks for the reply to defend credits :).

I had some moderation issues when I tried to send some word about this.
Just for sake of clarification:
I sent the advisory to Oracle on 20th April 2010. Oracle acknowledged
the issue on june.

If Roberto sent the advisory to Oracle then Oracle just didn't tell
him they already knew about it.
If Roberto just sent the issue to Apache then no one's faulty. :)
Anyway I hope credits will be at least shared between me and Roberto.

Cheers,
Stefano

2010/10/20 Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf () coredump cx>:
Security-Assessment.com follows responsible disclosure
and promptly contacted Oracle after discovering
the issue. Oracle was contacted on August 1,
2010.

My understanding is that Stefano Di Paola of Minded Security reported
this back in April; and further, the feature was a part of reasonably
well-documented functionality of Java pretty much ever since:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URL.html

"Two hosts are considered equivalent if both host names can be
resolved into the same IP addresses"

This was a pretty horrible design, so it's good to see it gone, though.

/mz

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