From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: bug in search engine
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 21:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0310092320310.3841@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031009205803.GA23169@redhat.com>
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Isn't that at the discretion of the form that is used to invoke the cgi?
>> Method="post", maybe? If so, I can fix this easily.
> That was it. I'm changing all of the search options to use 'method="post"'.
> That seems to work correctly.
Nice detective work, thanks!
> I've turned htsearch back on again.
Security-wise this may be premature (if, and only if the problems is
exploitable): someone else could craft a form invoking our cgi-bin in
the original "bad" way -- and given the problem was mentioned on the
public gcc list I'd say there is a non-zero chance for someone trying.
Or did I miss anyhing?
Gerald
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-09 21:22 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <Pine.BSF.4.58.0310092205520.3841@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
2003-10-09 20:21 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2003-10-09 20:33 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-10-09 20:37 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2003-10-09 20:49 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-10-09 20:58 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-10-09 21:22 ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2003-10-09 21:51 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-10-09 21:54 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2003-10-09 22:04 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-10-09 22:18 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2003-10-10 0:16 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-10-09 15:21 Aldy Hernandez
2003-10-09 15:25 ` Paolo Carlini
2003-10-09 15:32 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2003-10-09 15:37 ` Aldy Hernandez
2003-10-10 3:14 ` Aldy Hernandez
2003-10-10 6:58 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
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