It is sometimes interesting to see how typos can change the meaning. Correction -> they "did bother"
-----Original Message----- From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 12:39 AM To: 'Debasis Mohanty'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] tinyurl.com - Local Clipboard What are you saying. The "didn't bother", they "did bother", they were "bothered"?? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debasis Mohanty Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] tinyurl.com - Local Clipboard >> So you can't make the statement that nothing happend with FF. Don't bother about Firefox, they did bothered to take care of basic security issues before creating the browser. Accessing the clipboard via a web page is a pretty old well known bad design issue with IE. Try this link with your IE4 - IE6 with the default settings - http://www.friendlycanadian.com/applications/clipboard.htm Here the MS KB article for more details - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224993 -d -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] tinyurl.com - Local Clipboard If they can write to it, then they can read from it. There is no distinction or security control. There will also not be a trace on the client side that anything has happened. Additonal testing with Opera and FF2 show that they do not block/prompt for this behaviour by default. So you can't make the statement that nothing happend with FF. Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: Shaun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[email protected] Sent: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:30:48 -0500 Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] tinyurl.com - Local Clipboard I took a quick look and it appears that they aren't trying to read the clipboard, they're trying to write the generated tinyurl to it for the folks who are too lazy to control-c it out of the page. Annoying to have your clipboard contents clobbered, but not really a threat. It didn't do anything in FF2. -s On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:15:53 -0400 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "TinyURL.com > Making long URLs usable! More than 29 million of them. Over 700 million hits/month." > > Word of warning. When you submit a url to be shortened by tinyurl.com they attempt to steal the contents of your local clipboard. > > IE7 intercepts this and ask whether you want a site to be able to access your clipboard or not. Not sure how IE6, Opera and Firefox behave. > > Sent an email to inquire about why they were trying to access. No response as of yet. > > Jay > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
