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Re: [Full-disclosure] Konqueror: URL address bar spoofing vulnerabilities

From: Jonathan Smith (smithjrpath.com)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2007 - 17:37:05 CDT

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Robert Swiecki wrote:
> The second one is based on the http URI scheme which allows embedding
> user/password parameters into it, i.e. http://user:passworddomain.com.
> Such parameters can contain whitespaces, so the attack vector is quite
> obvious.
>
> http://alt.swiecki.net/konq3.html
>
> Tested with Konqueror 3.5.7 on Linux 2.6

This does interesting things to firefox as well. Specifically, it hangs
seemingly indefinably (with no cpu utilization). Tested with firefox-2.0.0.6 on
Foresight Linux (firefox=/foresight.rpath.orgfl:1-devel//1/2.0.0.6-1-1).

        smithj

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