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“Padding Oracle” ASP.NET Vulnerability Explanation
Share | var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Yesterday (Sept 18), Microsoft have released a Security Advisory for a newly discovered vulnerability in ASP.NET applications. Following the advisory, Scott Guthrie has published a blog post regarding this vulnerability, detailing an eligible workaround for preventing the exploit. However, according to the investigation I’ve done during the past couple of days, unfortunately, this workaround is far from being enough for plugging...
Beware of Multi-threaded nature of Web Apps
I’ve spent some time last week trying to solve production-time IIS crashes, caused by one of our web apps. With the great help of Gadi Meir we’ve detected, that some naive code somehow causes an endless recursion, resulting StackOverflowException, causing IIS to crash, and recycle the app pool. With some effort, I’ve finally understood what has happened there, and I’m able to simulate the behavior. Consider the following code (which was created entirely for demo purposes): 1: public static object...