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Re: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Plesner Jacobsen)
Wed Dec 10 19:11:48 2003

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:26:22 +0100
From: Andreas Plesner Jacobsen <apj@mutt.dk>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:13:57AM +0000, Pedro Castro wrote:
> >>From: <bugtraq@zapthedingbat.com>
> >>To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
> >>Subject: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability
> >>
> >>Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability
> >>Vendor Notified 09 December, 2003
> >>
> >># Vulnerability ##########
> >>There is a flaw in the way that Internet Explorer displays URLs in 
> >>the address bar.
> >>
> >>By opening a specially crafted URL an attacker can open a page that 
> >>appears to be from a different domain from the current location.
> >>
> >This exploit also applies to the Macintosh version of Explorer 
> >v5.2.3(5815.1)
>
> It does also apply to Mozilla Firebird 0.7.

Not the Linux edition, perhaps only on Windows?

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