[7627] in bugtraq
Re: Eudora executes (Java) URL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Hardin)
Wed Aug 12 15:06:36 1998
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 21:16:25 -0700
Reply-To: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin@WOLFENET.COM>
From: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin@WOLFENET.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980811153412.alec@dakotacom.net>
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Alec Kosky wrote:
> >> > s/<BODY\s+(([^">]+("(\\.|[^"])*")?)*)ONLOAD/<BODY $1
> >> DEFANGED-ONLOAD/gi;
> >>
> >> Also things like < body ... > wont be catched. I dont know if those
> >> are leading spaces are proper HTML, but even if not, one should not
> >> suppose every bad HTML to be rejected.
> >
> > The following can Fix all of that:
> >
> > s/<\s+BODY\s+((([^">]+("(\\.|[^"])*")?)*)ONLOAD)*?\s+/<BODY $1
> > DEFANGED-ONLOAD/gi;
>
> Actually, I believe the RE that you are looking for is this:
>
> s/<\s*BODY\s+((([^">]+("(\\.|[^"])*")?)*)ONLOAD)*?\s*/<BODY $1
> DEFANGED-ONLOAD/gi;
>
> The \s+ will only match one or more whitespaces, meaning that
> <BODY onload="badthings()" ONLOAD="badthings()"> would not be caught,
> becuase there are no spaces between < and body, but \s* will match zero
> or more whitespace characters. This will catch
"<\s+BODY" is not a valid HTML tag, so it will (should!) be totally
ignored by the HTML parser in the mail client. If the HTML parser in the
mail client ignores it, it's not an avenue for an exploit. Can anyone
actually get a HTML-aware email client to recognize and process a
"<\s+BODY" tag? Let me know.
I will, however, clean the filter up for multiple ONLOAD="" clauses.
Tomorrow.
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