#2 UNICODE/ASCII Error

[Anonymous]

This patch resolves an error in lswww.py where UNICODE/extended ASCII strings cannot be sent to the victim because Python recognizes them as being out of bounds (>d127). The patch switches the attack string to UNICODE so that it may be sent.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Fix UNICODE/ASCII error

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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A better patch that would prevent a new patch for some of the other modules would be:

*** powerfuzzer/lswww.py Fri Jun 27 18:14:08 2008
--- powerfuzzer2/lswww.py Thu Jul 24 13:11:34 2008
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*** 370,375 ****
--- 370,378 ----

def inzone(self,url):
"""Make sure the url is under the root url"""
+ temp=self.root
+ if isinstance(temp, unicode):
+ self.root=str(temp.encode("iso8859-15"))
if(url.find(self.root,0)==0):
return 0
else: