Re: [Full-disclosure] Windows XP bug

[T Biehn <tbiehn@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is fairly classic, not novel.
Your POC is fairly classic, not novel.

-Travis

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:54 PM, BlackHawk <hawkgotyou@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi list, i recently discovered a very small Windows XP bug, kind of
> useless alone but that could be usefull in some scenarios.
>
> Explanation:
>
> when you try to access a non existing directory though shell command
> "cd", XP returns an error (obviously), but if you cd to a non-existing
> & move one directory up, you'll not get any error.
>
> Example:
> ---
> C:\>cd ./somerandomchars <-- Will give an error
> Impossibile trovare il percorso specificato.
>
> C:\>cd ./somerandomchars/../ <-- Everything is ok
>
> C:\>
> ---
>
> PoC on how to make this thing usefull:
>
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/28080332/Podcast-Generator-1-3-Arbitrary-File-Download-Windows
>
> Hope this could be useful for you in some way..
>
> --
> BlackHawk - hawkgotyou@xxxxxxxxx
>
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