full-disclosure - Re: Apple IOS security issue pre-advisory record

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]

Message-ID: <36054.1332604428@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:53:48 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Dave <mrx@...pergander.org.uk>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Apple IOS security issue pre-advisory record

On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:26:48 -0000, Dave said:

> Doesn't the the -e, robots=off, --page-requisites and -H wget directives enable
> one to collect all the necessary files that are called from a page?

No, not *all* the files, for the same reason that if you visit a page with
NoScript enabled, you may end up with missing content and/or big open spaces on
the page.

Consider a page that has Javascript on it:

todaysfile = "http://www.news-site.com/" + date_as_string;
document.load(todaysfile);

Unless you interpret the javascript, you don't know what URL will get loaded,
because yesterday and tomorrow will get a different URL.  So basically,
if you try to pull it down with wget or similar, you will miss *all* the stuff
that's pulled down via Javascript (and probably via css as well - does wget
know how to follow CSS references?).  On many modern web designs,
this ends up being the vast majority of the content.

Content of type "application/pgp-signature" skipped

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html
Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/