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Gmail Bug with attachent !

 

Seems like following is a bug in Gmail system. I was investigating over PHP.Backdrop.Trojan and wanted to show malicious installed.php file to my friend. Here is what I did -

1. Created a reply mail (in Gmail).
2. Attached two files. One of them was malicious ‘installed.php’. The attachment was successful.
3. Saved draft.
4. Clicked ‘Send‘ button, and got confirmation about successful send.
5. Now when I clicked ‘Your message have been sent. View message.‘, voila! nothing happen and it didn’t even showed me my mail.
6. Later after few hour I realized that mail has not been sent and still there as draft!

That’s why they call it beta!

[ Note: Ideally a message with viruses should not circulated. My concern in this post is the invalid message/alert displayed to user! ]

- ankit

Post a comment — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009, at 11:56 pm by Ankit Jain. Filed in Google, Hacking and tagged , , .

2 Comments

  1. Chirag Mehta

    This is what you see as a con of Asychronour behaviour.

    Posted on 20-May-09 at 8:27 am | Permalink
  2. Ankit

    It’s not con of asynch beh. it’s a clear bug.

    Posted on 06-Aug-09 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

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