full-disclosure - Re: Windows XP bug

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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 14:43:26 +0530
From: Vipul Agarwal <vipul@...tygeeks.com>
To: BlackHawk <hawkgotyou@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Windows XP bug

First, the bug seems to be useless but you deployed it cleverly in the
PoC. It could be something rare but makes web apps on Windows
vulnerable with some exceptions.

Nice work!

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Sagar Belure <sagar.belure@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:54 AM, BlackHawk <hawkgotyou@...il.com> wrote:
>> Hi list, i recently discovered a very small Windows XP bug, kind of
>> useless alone but that could be usefull in some scenarios.
>>
>> Explanation:
>>
>> when you try to access a non existing directory though shell command
>> "cd", XP returns an error (obviously), but if you cd to a non-existing
>> & move one directory up, you'll not get any error.
>>
>> Example:
>> ---
>> C:\>cd ./somerandomchars <-- Will give an error
>> Impossibile trovare il percorso specificato.
>>
>> C:\>cd ./somerandomchars/../ <-- Everything is ok
>>
>> C:\>
>> ---
>>
>> PoC on how to make this thing usefull:
>> http://www.scribd.com/doc/28080332/Podcast-Generator-1-3-Arbitrary-File-Download-Windows
>>
>> Hope this could be useful for you in some way..
>>
>> --
>> BlackHawk - hawkgotyou@...il.com
>>
>> Sent with Gmail
>>
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>
> Never seen this before.
> But, it's very obvious, as you are 'changing directory'(cd
> thisdoesntexist/) to a non existing folder and then getting out of
> it(../).
>
> But, there is difference with evaluation/calculation in windows and linux.
> Here is how...
>
> On Windows Box...
>
> C:\>cd thisdoesntexist/
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> C:\>cd thisdoesntexist/../
>
> C:\>cd thisdoesntexist/thisonetoo/../
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> C:\>cd thisdoesntexist/thisonetoo/../../
>
> C:\>
>
>
> On Linux box...
>
> one@...ntubox:~$ cd thisdoesntexist/
> -bash: cd: thisdoesntexist: No such file or directory
> one@...ntubox:~$ cd thisdoesntexist/../
> -bash: cd: thisdoesntexist/../: No such file or directory
> one@...ntubox:~$
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Sagar Belure
> Security Analyst
> Secfence Technologies
> www.secfence.com
>
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>



-- 
Thanks and Regards,
Vipul Agarwal

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