Re: Apache Multiple Injection Vulnerabilities
Yes, that's true, control characters are not in violation of the stated
charset "iso-8859-1". Thank you for notice me this. Unfortunately I mispelled
"iso-8859-1" as "iso 8859-1" wich is not the same. I'm sorry for this. I'll
correct this right now.
Sincerely,
> Just a quick note: what you demonstrated is that "control characters"
> are returned in a response whose charset is "iso-8859-1". But your text
> later states that "ISO 8859-1 encodes ...". Notice the difference:
> "iso-8859-1" vs. "iso 8859-1" - hyphen vs. space. These are different
> character sets - iso-8859-1 is a superset of iso 8859-1, adding all
> those control characters and whatnot. From RFC-1345:
>
> &charset ISO_8859-1:1987
> &rem source: ECMA registry
> &alias iso-ir-100
> &g1esc x2d41 &g2esc x2e41 &g3esc x2f41
> &alias ISO_8859-1
> &alias ISO-8859-1
> &alias latin1
> &alias l1
> &alias IBM819
> &alias CP819
> &code 0
> NU SH SX EX ET EQ AK BL BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI
> DL D1 D2 D3 D4 NK SY EB CN EM SB EC FS GS RS US
> SP ! " Nb DO % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?control
characters are not in violation of the stated charset
> At A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z <( // )> '> _
> '! a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z (! !! !) '? DT
> PA HO BH NH IN NL SA ES HS HJ VS PD PU RI S2 S3
> DC P1 P2 TS CC MW SG EG SS GC SC CI ST OC PM AC
> NS !I Ct Pd Cu Ye BB SE ': Co -a << NO -- Rg '-
> DG +- 2S 3S '' My PI .M ', 1S -o >> 14 12 34 ?I
> A! A' A> A? A: AA AE C, E! E' E> E: I! I' I> I:
> D- N? O! O' O> O? O: *X O/ U! U' U> U: Y' TH ss
> a! a' a> a? a: aa ae c, e! e' e> e: i! i' i> i:
> d- n? o! o' o> o? o: -: o/ u! u' u> u: y' th y:
>
> So those control characters are not in violation of the stated charset.
>
> Thanks,
> -Amit
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