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Date: 1999-02-25

Klaut win.ini: Netscape 4.5 Exploit


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Unübliche Breaking News von Bennett Haselton, der
gewöhnlich an der Zensurfront unterwegs ist. Sie handeln
darüber, wie man vermittels Netscape 4.5 die win.ini &
andere auch vom Pfade her bekannte Dateien von Festplatten
fladern kann.

post/scrypt: Breaking & unbestätigt. Wir ersuchen
Interessierte höflich um Evaluation.

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It is about a security hole that I found about a few hours ago,
in Netscape Communicator 4.x. The security hole allows
you to view any file on a person's hard drive if they use
Netscape Communicator for Windows.

Of the different browser bugs that ever been found, bugs that
allow you to read the contents of a person's hard drive are
considered *by far* the most serious. Only a handful have
ever actually been discovered.

The News.com article links to a page on Peacefire.org that
demonstrates the security hole at
http://www.peacefire.org/readfile/

(Note: this is *not* the same as the security hole that I found
in HotMail a few weeks ago, which you may have also gotten
an e-mail about.)

This is off the beaten path from the anti-Internet-censorship
issues that Peacefire works on (and that I usually send out e-
mails about), but I thought you might be interested since this
story is less than an hour old.


http://www.peacefire.org/readfile/

-Bennett


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published on: 1999-02-25
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