Bugtraq: Re: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerability

[<soulshok () hippie dk>]

In-Reply-To: <20031209144416.31613.qmail () sf-www2-symnsj securityfocus com>

> # Exploit ##########
> By opening a window using the http://user () domain nomenclature an attacker can hide the real location of the page by 
> including a 0x01 character after the "@" character.
> Internet Explorer doesn't display the rest of the URL making the page appear to be at a different domain. 
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> # Tested ##########
> Internet Explorer
> Version 6.0.2800.1106C0
> Updates: SP1, Q810847, Q810351, Q822925, Q330994, Q828750, Q824145
Internet Explorer 5.00.3700.1000 (SP4, Q824145) doesn't seem to be vunlerable to this.