Re: Another Netscape 4.07 cache reading bug

From: Ken Williams (jkwilli2at_private)
Date: Thu Oct 08 1998 - 21:22:12 PDT

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    On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Georgi Guninski wrote:
    
    >| Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 22:20:19 -0400
    >| From: Georgi Guninski <guninskiat_private>
    >| To: BUGTRAQat_private
    >| Subject: Another Netscape 4.07 cache reading bug
    >|
    >| I have found a new bug in Netscape Communicator 4.07, 4.05 (probably others),
    >| which allows reading the user's cache (the URLs the user has visited, including the info in GET forms).
    >| The bug uses Javascript - a link to 'about:<SCRIPT>...javascript code...</SCRIPT>' does the work.
    >|
    >| A demo is available at: http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/guninski/ncache.html
    >|
    >| Part of the code is borrowed from Dan Brumleve <nothingat_private>, for better goodies see:
    >| http://www.shout.net/~nothing/son-of-cache-cow/index.html
    >| Workaround: Disable Javascript.
    >|
    >| Regards,
    >| Georgi Guninski
    >|
    >|
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    Hello,
    
    Netscape 4.05, 4.07 (and 3.01 and 3.0 Gold) for Solaris 2.51 and for
    Linux Red Hat 5.0 and 5.1 are NOT vulnerable to this bug.
    
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