CVE-2008-1545 Information

Description

The setRequestHeader method of the XMLHttpRequest object in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 does not restrict the dangerous Transfer-Encoding HTTP request header which allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP request splitting and HTTP request smuggling attacks via a POST containing a \Transfer-Encoding: chunked\ header and a request body with an incorrect chunk size.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/29453 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3786 http://www.mindedsecurity.com/MSA01240108.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489960/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0980 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42804