bugtraq - Re: Re: Security issue in Microsoft Outlook

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Message-ID: <20050519135733.GA13183@jschipper.dynalias.net>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:57:33 +0200
From: Joachim Schipper <j.schipper@...h.uu.nl>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Re: Security issue in Microsoft Outlook

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:07:54PM -0700, Harshad wrote:
> This issue was originally discovered by Harry from http://
> www.securityalertz.com & http://www.Harry-Inc.com The article is stolen from
> http://www.securityalertz.com/Article805.html posted on May 06 2005
> ..Lol....the poser below copies most of the articles from Securityalertz on his
> so called security sites claiming them to be his....
> 
> Bakchodiya <bakchodiya@...oo.com> wrote:
> 
>     An issue has been discovered in MS Outlook (All
>     Versions) where anyone can fake a URL & send it
>     across.
> 
>     How does it work:
> 
>     Lets compose an email in MS Outlook, lets type
> 
> 
>     http://www.cybertrion.com & put a space after it to
>     make it a link. Now put your cursor just before
>     cybertrion & type any URL for eg:
>     http://www.foo-labs.info now send it to anyone. The
>     receiver will see the URL as http://www.foo-labs.info
>     but when he clicks on it it will directly take him to
>     http://www.cybertrion.com
> 
>     I am not sure how critical this is but it can fool
>     alot of people & result in download of a virus.

Erm... do you *want* to admit to 'discovering' this? ;-)

		Joachim

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