Fwd: Bug#46381: IE SSL Vulnerability (Konqueror affected too)

[Stephan Binner]

Strange way to archive it into the bug system.

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Subject: Bug#46381: IE SSL Vulnerability (Konqueror affected too)
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:41:11 -0700
From: "Thomas C. Greene" <tcgreene at bellatlantic.net>
To: bugtraq at securityfocus.com
Cc: submit at bugs.kde.org

http: //theregister.co.uk/content/4/26620.html

[....]
I've not tested this on IE because several researchers posting to Benham's
BugTraq thread
(http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/286895/2002-08-08/2002-08-14/1)
have confirmed the behavior. But I did test it on Mozilla 0.9.4, which Benham
says isn't vulnerable, and Konqueror 3.0 (KDE 3.0.2 on SuSE 8.0), which he
doesn't mention.

Konqueror turned out quite vulnerable. Mozilla was not vulnerable, but I'm
 not sure if that's because it handled the situation properly, or is,
 ironically, somehow too buggy to be exploited.

I made a simple HTML file with links to the amazon URL. After associating
Benham's test-page IP with www.amazon.com in my hosts file I found that in
Konqueror, following a link to https://www.amazon.com brought me immediately
to the 'you've been hacked' page, indicating total failure. The behavior was
the same when I typed the URL into the address bar.

With Mozilla the URL, https://www.amazon.com simply went nowhere. No cert
warning, no 404, nothing. The browser simply remained on the page from which
I started. The behavior was the same when I typed the URL into the address
bar.
[....]

--tcg
http://theregister.co.uk



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