[9351] in bugtraq
Re: Unsecured server in applets under Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tor Houghton)
Thu Feb 4 16:43:51 1999
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 11:58:17 +0100
Reply-To: Tor Houghton <th@NEXTEL.NO>
From: Tor Houghton <th@NEXTEL.NO>
X-To: Giao Nguyen <grail@CAFEBABE.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <14007.27670.587482.882130@wuss>
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Giao Nguyen wrote:
> Just for kicks, I wrote a sample applet that listened on a socket. I
> discovered that when the applet was loaded under Netscape (as tested
> with version 4.5), any hosts could then connect to the machine running
> this applet. I won't bore anyone with the code because it's so trivial
> that a novice to Java should be able to write it with ease after
> reading some documentation.
This is not specific to 4.5. I am running 4.07, and it displays the same
behaviour.
Regards,
Tor Houghton
