RE: Hexyn / Securax Advisory #22 - ICQ Forced Auto-Add Users

From: Richard M. Smith (rmsat_private)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 10:36:24 PDT

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    I suspect this bug is also exploitable from HTML email by including the
    magic ICQ URL in an <IFRAME> tag embedded in the message.
    
    Richard
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: AreS [mailto:ares@security-downloads.com] 
    Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 6:14 PM
    To: BUGTRAQat_private
    Subject: Hexyn / Securax Advisory #22 - ICQ Forced Auto-Add Users
    
    
    Hexyn / Securax Advisory #22 - ICQ Forced Auto-Add Users
    
    Topic: ICQ Forced Auto-Add Users
    Announced: 2001-08-17
    Affects: ICQ 200x* up to 2001a Alpha
    
    DISCLAIMER:
    ***********
    THE ENTIRE ADVISORY HAS BEEN  BASED  UPON   TRIAL  AND  ERROR  RESULTS.
    THEREFORE WE CANNOT ENSURE YOU THE INFORMATION BELOW IS  100%  CORRECT.
    THIS DOCUMENT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT  PRIOR  NOTICE.
    
    I. Problem Description
    **********************
    ICQ is a popular and free chat program, with over 108,022,319 users all
    over the world.  When ICQ is  installed,  it  adds  a  Content-Type  to
    Microsoft Internet Exploder, the "application/x-icq" type. When IE
    receives  "Content-Type: application/x-icq" from  a web  server and
    following content:
    



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