[Full-disclosure] Internet Explorer 8 PoC: window.onerror leak leads to surge in interest in goat farming?

[Chris Evans <scarybeasts@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Internet Explorer has a cross-origin leak through the window.onerror
callback.
At first glance, it's a minor leak but if you look around you can find a
significant impact on some subset of websites.

I wrote up more thorough details on how the attack works here:
http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2010/10/minor-leak-major-headache.html

I also provided a PoC against Google Reader; the victim has their anti-XSRF
token stolen and this is used to force them to subscribe to a feed on goat
farming: http://scary.beasts.org/misc/reader.html

(Unfortunately -- or fortunately depending upon you point of view -- the PoC
is neutered because the Reader team elected to work around the IE
vulnerability for now).

The vulnerability remains unfixed in production versions of IE and is
approaching 2 years old since vendor notification. This would make this a
600-day disclosure. It would be inaccurate to use the term "0-day", although
misuse of that term is somewhat rampant.

Security-conscious users may wish to prefer the Firefox browser over
Internet Explorer; the timeline in the blog post shows two very different
vendor responses to the exact same cross-origin leak.


Cheers
Chris

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