playing for fun with <=IE7
Impact: who knows ...
Fix Available: no

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1) Bug
2) Proof of concept
3)Conclusion



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1) Bug
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it's possible to bypass the extension filter of <=IE7 this can result by downloading
an arbitrary exe file

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2)proof of concept
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let's take this exemple :
http://dams083.free.fr/tmp/putty.exe
this is simply putty .
you click on this and then you will be prompted for downloading the file.
but what about if we do :
http://dams083.free.fr/tmp/putty.exe?1.txt
.... the .exe is showed.
now let's go a bit ahead :
http://dams083.free.fr/tmp/putty.exe?1.cda
wow my .exe is downloaded directly and located in temporary files ( and """opened""" by windows media player).
works with theses extension :
..log
..dif
..sol
..htt
..itpc
..itms
..dvr-ms
..dib
..asf
..tif
etc ...
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5) Conclusion
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this is very funny , because actually it only works for .exe extensions.

..COM , .PIF , etc you CANT do this. ( overwrite the extension , and then bypass the filter)
i guess we can wonder what the heck.


regards laurent gaffié