full-disclosure - Re: Fwd: nVidia.com [Url Redirection flaw]

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Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:32:58 -0400
From: mac.user@....hush.com
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, pete.licoln@...il.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: nVidia.com [Url Redirection flaw]

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Peter, there is no reason to insult this aspiring young computer
scientist and his endeavours to fully disclose information security
errata.  Calling him stupid for citing an industry acclaimed source
makes you nothing but arrogant and uneducated.  :)

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:13:53 -0400 Pete Licoln
<pete.licoln@...il.com> wrote:
>2009/3/25 Lorenzo Vogelsang <vogelsang.lorenzo@...il.com>
>
>> Neverthless i think that the open redirect vulnerabilty it's
>serious,
>> because "This vulnerability is used in phishing attacks to get
>users to
>> visit malicious sites without realizing it." (
>> http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Open_redirect)
>
>Well that's actually false, because the person who WANTS to
>hijack/Phish
>someone who TRUST nvdia via this "flaw" need first to control this
>website
>..Or trick a very very dummy person, it's almost the same as if
>you say "
>wow you  can do phishing with the ADDTHIS service " only because
>the "from
>field" can be controlled, without looking at :
>The subject :  Link shared by  **spoofer**
>The message body : " this spoofed_emailer recommands you to see
>this link
>,[Message sent by spoofer@....site via AddThis.com. Please note
>that the
>sender's email address has not been verified.]
>Cant do nothing about  that, if you're enough  silly to believe in
>such
>credibility, an A-V software wont help you too.
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