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Re: IE https certificate attack

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Przemyslaw Frasunek)
Tue Dec 25 12:37:41 2001

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From: Przemyslaw Frasunek <venglin@freebsd.lublin.pl>
To: security@e-matters.de, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 16:14:39 +0100
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On Saturday 22 December 2001 15:37, security@e-matters.de wrote:
>    A proof of concept webpage was put up at http://suspekt.org. Clicking
>    onto the "To the secure page..." link will send your browser to
>    https://suspekt.org without IE warning you that the certificate was not
>    issued onto that server.

Looks like Konqueror 2.2.1 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 + OpenSSL 0.9.6b) is also 
vulnerable. I've got no warning when entering on this page. I've tested it 
also with lynx 2.8.4rel.1 (compiled with OpenSSL 0.9.6a on FreeBSD) with the 
same result. 

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