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Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 08:35:54 -0500
From: Zate <zate75@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Full-disclosure] Thttpd 2.25b Directory
 Traversal Vulnerability

I got the same results.  Locally without http it shows me the local
/etc/passwd and /etc/system, remotely against the reported version I get
file not found with both lynx -dump and GET.

Zate


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Matthias Weckbecker <mweckbecker@...e.de>wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 May 2013 13:44:09 Oden Eriksson wrote:
> > onsdagen den 22 maj 2013 13.06.18 skrev  Matthias Weckbecker:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > has anybody possibly already confirmed this? It might also be worth
> > > to assign a CVE to this if it turns out to be a reproducible issue.
> >
> > Confirmed here. Needed to use "lynx -dump ...".
>
> That's weird. But you've tried it *with* 'http://'? Otherwise you
> don't even generate a HTTP request.
>
> $ lynx -dump "127.0.0.1:/../../../etc/passwd"
> vs
> $ lynx -dump "http://127.0.0.1/../../../etc/passwd"
>
> I don't think this report is valid.
>
> Matthias
>
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> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany
> Tel: +49-911-74053-0;  http://suse.com/
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