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From: "Matt Parlane" <matt@zevi.net>
Subject: Re: Web Browser Information Leakage through NetFilter:
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:44:48 +1200
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To: stewart.thompson@shaw.ca, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org

> I was redirected to some German web site.
> I couldn't read the text obviously, but the gist was I
> was insecure, it showed a completely accurate listing
> of all the folders on my Windows machine I was using
> the browser on at the time. Obviously I wasn't to please
> about this. I am assuming it is a function of the Browser
> and Server, and not a direct problem with my firewall.
> I am running IE V6 on that machine.
> So the question is, can a malicious website access
> Sensitive data with this method? Is there some way to block
> this with Netfilter and/or Browser settings?

Hi Stu...

This is probably an IFrame with a location of file:///C:/ which basically
shows you a listing of your c:\ directory.  Pretty sneaky... but rest
assured that if this is what it is, they can't get at anything on your
machine.

Matt