On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Michal Zalewski <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Security-Assessment.com follows responsible disclosure > > and promptly contacted Oracle after discovering > > the issue. Oracle was contacted on August 1, > > 2010. > > My understanding is that Stefano Di Paola of Minded Security reported > this back in April; and further, the feature was a part of reasonably > well-documented functionality of Java pretty much ever since: > > http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/net/URL.html The Host: header trick was also used back in 2008 in Billy Rios' GIFAR attack -- to get around the fact that Picasa hosts images on a separate domain: http://xs-sniper.com/blog/2008/12/17/sun-fixes-gifars/ The blog post title was "SUN Fixes GIFARs", although it's not immediately obvious to me what was changed or fixed. If anyone knows what was changed back then and/or in this latest release, it would be interesting to see it documented. Cheers Chris > > > "Two hosts are considered equivalent if both host names can be > resolved into the same IP addresses" > > This was a pretty horrible design, so it's good to see it gone, though. > > /mz > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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