Re: Konqueror: URL address bar spoofing vulnerabilities

[Jonathan Smith <smithj@xxxxxxxxx>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

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:password@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 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.org@fl:1-devel//1/2.0.0.6-1-1).

        smithj

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFGt6KR0e1Yawpq2XMRAptmAJ9YTUDtNKUctdrfPDLGn6sWug/ivwCeIYvE
IpsCSHCIHi6dyzWPebwp/wU=
=bLFr
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----