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

[Jonathan Smith <smithj () rpath com>]

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Jonathan Smith wrote:
> 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 () domain com.
> > Such parameters can contain whitespaces, so the attack vector is quite
> > obvious.
>
> > http://alt.swiecki.net/konq3.html
>
> 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).

er, spoke too soon. It actually just presents a dialog box that doesn't let you
choose an option (to continue logging in or not). What I was seeing was firefox
not letting me do anything until I chose one of the non-existent options.
Killing the dialog box makes the firefox session resume normally. Apparently
this dialog-issue was fixed in trunk (for 3.x) but not in 2.x.

Thanks to Adam Guthrie from Mozilla for helping figure that one out.

        smithj

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