RE: /instmsg/alias/annoying_web_logs ;)

From: Elan Hasson (elanat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 10:59:34 PDT

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    What the hell is this thread about?
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: zeno [mailto:bugtraqat_private]
    Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 10:05 AM
    To: H D Moore
    Cc: Dave Aitel; danat_private; vuln-devat_private
    Subject: Re: /instmsg/alias/annoying_web_logs ;)
    
    
    >
    > 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
    



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