Re: /instmsg/alias/annoying_web_logs ;)

From: Dave Aitel (daveat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 07:09:00 PDT

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    Exchange and MSN Messanger are the top leads so far. :> Someone install
    MSN Messanger and find out! (Doesn't ANYONE run that thing?) :>
    
    -dave
    
    
    On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 10:05, zeno wrote:
    > > 
    > > I get billions of these things too, its part of some MSN groups/chat 
    > > thing, essentially it takes requests the "alias" of the email address 
    > > (daveat_private => /instmsg/alias/dave). Might be fun to send back 
    > 
    > These things are damn annoying. I get probably 5 of these a day and 1 person keeps checking me every
    > few hours. 
    > 
    > 
    > > some looooong responses ;) My favorites are all the ones that originate 
    > > from microsoft "tide" addresses... They send me some funny referrers from 
    > > their intranet servers once in a while too.
    > > 
    > 
    > Ha. 
    > 
    > 
    > > ---
    > > "Immunity also gets a lot of requests for /instmsg/alias/dave, which 
    > > doesn't exist. I'm curious what web client plugin causes this behavior. 
    > > And, I've noticed FrontPage makes PROPFIND, /_vti_bin/shtml.dll, and 
    > > other FrontPage-style requests. Somewhere here I smell an exploitable 
    > > client-side vulnerability."
    > > ---
    > >
    > 
    > 
    > I'm curious do we know this is MSN messanger? Anybody else know if AIM or another client sends
    > these requests?
    > 
    > - zeno
    > 
    >  
    -- 
    Dave Aitel <daveat_private>
    Immunity, Inc
    
    
    



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