1995-09-22 - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)

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From: Scott M Fabbri <m1smf99@FRB.GOV>
To: perry@piermont.com
Message Hash: f7313a6792d70a9f8b74e77011ba80d158340e7c066568b55f2a086bdd4d6313
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Reply To: <199509221243.IAA03781@frankenstein.piermont.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-22 14:13:45 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 07:13:45 PDT

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From: Scott M Fabbri <m1smf99@FRB.GOV>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 07:13:45 PDT
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)
In-Reply-To: <199509221243.IAA03781@frankenstein.piermont.com>
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> I don't believe the Sun Java stuff would suffer from it, although I
> fear Java a great deal.

Java's doesn't break on this one. All you get back is a message saying the 
domain isn't defined.

BTW: This was tested using 

http://foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.
foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo
.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.fo
o.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.f
oo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.
foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo
.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.fo
o.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.f
oo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.
foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo
.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.fo
o.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo.foo/

on a SunOS box using HotJava 1.0 alpha 3.

Scott
--
Scott Fabbri                                  sfabbri@frb.gov
Opinions solely my own -- who else would want them?

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• 1995-09-22 (Fri, 22 Sep 95 00:24:28 PDT) - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole) - goedel@tezcat.com (Dietrich J. Kappe)
  • 1995-09-22 (Fri, 22 Sep 95 00:53:01 PDT) - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole) - jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
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    • 1995-09-22 (Fri, 22 Sep 95 05:43:45 PDT) - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole) - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
      • 1995-09-22 (Fri, 22 Sep 95 07:13:45 PDT) - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole) - Scott M Fabbri <m1smf99@FRB.GOV>
      • 1995-09-22 (Fri, 22 Sep 95 12:27:31 PDT) - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole) - Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
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            • 1995-09-23 (Fri, 22 Sep 95 22:16:31 PDT) - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole) - Ray Cromwell <rjc@clark.net>
          • 1995-09-25 (Mon, 25 Sep 95 12:02:32 PDT) - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole) - Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu>
    • 1995-09-22 (Fri, 22 Sep 95 13:04:54 PDT) - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole) - frenchie@magus.dgsys.com (SysAdmin)
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  • 1995-09-22 (Fri, 22 Sep 95 10:04:56 PDT) - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole) - Yih-Chun Hu <yihchun@u.washington.edu>
  • 1995-09-22 (Fri, 22 Sep 95 10:18:08 PDT) - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole) - Thomas Grant Edwards <tedwards@Glue.umd.edu>