RE: /instmsg/alias/annoying_web_logs ;)

From: Dave Aitel (daveat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 19:00:20 PDT

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    Originally it is about an article from Immunity's website
    (http://www.immunitysec.com/dailydave/)
    -dave
    
    
    On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 13:59, Elan Hasson wrote:
    > 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
    > 
    > 
    -- 
    Dave Aitel <daveat_private>
    Immunity, Inc
    
    
    



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