Watch That Back Button

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  1. goofyfish

    goofyfish Analog By Birth, Digital By Design Valued Senior Member

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    Security Focus has provided exploit code to prove this concept, which I couldn't help but test and zippity-do-da... it worked!

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    How could Microsoft let that one slip through?
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    The potential for this one is quite high, so be mindful of when you use your Back button. IE 6.0 on Windows 2000 and XP has been proven to be affected, though other versions and operating systems are likely to also be flawed.

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    goofyfish, Apr 18, 2002
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    Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member

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    I kind of knew of this through running a CGI script. I think I wrongly compiled PERL so that when you first tried running a script, it would forward you to a 500 Internal Server Error, but when you pressed the Back button the CGI script ran fine.
     
    Stryder, Apr 18, 2002
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    wet1 Wanderer Registered Senior Member

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    What? Another hole in the colonder discovered? Why am I not amazed?
     
    wet1, Apr 18, 2002
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    Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    M$ tests their BETA versions on animals (i.e. us). All the MS products have a tradition to be released full of bugs and many other different insects.
     
    Avatar, Apr 19, 2002
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    hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahaha...

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