[Full-disclosure] noise about full-width encoding bypass?

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Dear Brian Eaton,

--Monday, May 21, 2007, 6:22:21 PM, you wrote to websecurity at webappsec.org:


BE> If the SQL engine is processing queries in ASCII or ISO-8859-1, the
BE> conversion from unicode to the code page used by the engine will fail.
BE>  Either the engine will give up on the query, or it might substitute a
BE> question mark (?) for the unconvertible character.

It's not true, because it's quite convertible character. At least for IIS:

http://example.com/test.asp?q=%uFF1Cscript>alert("Hello")</script>

where test.asp is

<%=Request.QueryString("q")%>

launches javascript.

BTW:  It  may be used to bypass keyword based filtering to create, e.g.
porn pages available through any corporate firewall. See

http://securityvulns.ru/files/p.html

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