full-disclosure - New (19.10.05) MS-IE Url Spoofing bug (byK-Gen).

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Date: Thu Oct 20 20:30:59 2005
From: smelnick at water.com (Scott Melnick)
Subject: New (19.10.05) MS-IE Url Spoofing bug (byK-Gen).

Nick FitzGerald Wrote:

>IFF that is the case, then it is an extraordinarily brain-dead design, 
>as it breaks the very critical "rule" that you should NOT surprise the 
>user.  A URL link that is shown in the interface to go one place, but 
>which goes somewhere else is fundamentally broken under that rule.

>If this is by design, then it's another case of a feature that breaks 
>Billy's admonition that security is to trump features, so should be 
>fixed.

>Regards,
>Nick FitzGerald

It has been that way for a long time. Sometime the underlined link is in
the form of Click Here to be redirected. Phishing schemes have been
using this in emails for a good long time as well. Especially the ebay
account ones that I'm sure everyone has seen about account information.

Scott Melnick
Security Guy