bugtraq - Re: Security-Assessment.com Advisory: Oracle JRE - java.net.URLConnection class

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimVUgfM6U4i4FiWPYNjiBCupB0LeG8K5Pwsbupg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:58:29 -0700
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx>
To: Roberto Suggi Liverani <roberto.suggi@...urity-assessment.com>
Cc: "bugtraq@...urityfocus.com" <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>,
	full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Security-Assessment.com Advisory: Oracle JRE -
 java.net.URLConnection class - Same-of-Origin (SOP) Policy Bypass

> Security-Assessment.com follows responsible disclosure
> and promptly contacted Oracle after discovering
> the issue. Oracle was contacted on August 1,
> 2010.

My understanding is that Stefano Di Paola of Minded Security reported
this back in April; and further, the feature was a part of reasonably
well-documented functionality of Java pretty much ever since:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URL.html

"Two hosts are considered equivalent if both host names can be
resolved into the same IP addresses"

This was a pretty horrible design, so it's good to see it gone, though.

/mz