full-disclosure - Internet Explorer 0day

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Wed Mar 15 21:19:58 2006
From: j.schipper at math.uu.nl (Joachim Schipper)
Subject: Internet Explorer 0day

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 05:15:50AM -0600, nocfed wrote:
> > > Mozilla isn't any better these days. Let's all
> > > improve on netcat!
> >
> > Well, OpenBSD's has an option to work via HTTP proxies in the upcoming
> > 3.9 release... ;-)
> >
> >                 Joachim
> >
> 
> HUH?
> 
> You mean like when they added basic HTTP CONNECT back in October of 2004?
> 
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/socks.c.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.9&f=h
> 
> http://www.openbsd.org/plus37.html
> "Add support for the HTTP proxy CONNECT method to nc(1)."
> 
> Has had SOCKS4/5 for quite a while before that.
> 
> Anyways, ditch netcat and use nmap-ncat
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/nmap-ncat/

No, as Rembrandt pointed out, more precisely - it can do authenticated
HTTP proxying.

Anyway, all this just leads to lynx... which is, BTW, quite useful.

		Joachim