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Re : [Full-disclosure] Outlook Express 6.0 : link destination obfuscation

or http://www.myBank.com+aWholeLottaJunk@xxxxxxxxxxx 

This example does not work anymore due to the recent desactivation
of this syntax by Microsoft (for http:// only, it still works for ftp://).

Romain

Romain Vergniol wrote:
Hello FD readers,

did anyone already noticed that on Outlook Express 6.0, when a link is
longer than 512 bytes, the destination is not displayed at all in the
status bar ?

Tested on Outlook Express 6.0 on WinXP Pro SP2 FR, does not work on Outlook
2003 Win XP SP2 FR.

Ex :
<a href="http://www.exemple.com/+(500 random chars)">www.bank.com</a>

It could be used in phishing attacks for exemple to hide real link destination.
Could it be considered as a security issue ?

Kind regards,
Romain Vergniol


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