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Re: the other IE cookie stealing bug (MS01-055)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (CDE Francis)
Mon Nov 19 11:41:10 2001

Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:23:10 -0500
From: CDE Francis <fuy@jhu.edu>
In-reply-to: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0111142031560.527-100000@alive.znep.com>
To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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At 8:44 PM -0800 2001/11/14, Marc Slemko wrote:
>         http://passport.com%20.sub.znep.com/cgi-bin/cookies
>    ...will cause IE to connect to the hostname specified, but send the
>    cookies to the server based on the hostname before the "%20"

Once again, I'd like to point out that IE 5 Mac (OS 8/9 or X) is not
  vulnerable to this attack. Please remember that IE != Windows.  :-p

-F.

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