full-disclosure - Re: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerabi lity

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Message-ID: <3FD8C4AB.8000407@comcast.net>
From: hjtoi at comcast.net (Heikki Toivonen)
Subject: Re: Internet Explorer URL parsing vulnerabi
 lity

Jim Race wrote:
>>> http://petard.freeshell.org/ms-announce.html
> Check that. With Moz 1.5:
> 
> Opening in a new *TAB* takes one to MS. Clicking the link takes one to 
> /. with "http://www.microsoft.com%01@...shdot.org/" in the address bar.

That is because the href points to MS, and that is what we will use for 
opening a link in a new tab. The Slashdot link will be followed in case 
of a click event (context menu or middle-click won't therefore activate it).

-- 
   Heikki Toivonen