Internet Explorer URL Display problem

Antony Stone Antony at SOFT-SOLUTIONS.CO.UK
Thu Dec 11 15:42:25 GMT 2003


On Thursday 11 December 2003 3:34 pm, Julian Field wrote:

> At 15:27 11/12/2003, you wrote:
> >%0[0-9] would be better (or something like that).
>
> %[01][0-9a-fA-F]
> instead of
> %01
> perhaps?
>
> I would imagine that the guy who found this exploit tested other characters
> too and found them not to be vulnerable. So %01 is probably good enough.

The report at http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10395 mentions that %00 at
least is also effective.

Antony.

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