full-disclosure - Mozilla Security Advisory 2004-07-08

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From: skylined at edup.tudelft.nl (Berend-Jan Wever)
Subject: Mozilla Security Advisory 2004-07-08

You are passing parameters. For instance, when you invoke a media player through shell:xxx.mp3, the filename xxx.mp3 is the parameter.

Cheers,
SkyLined
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Flynn" <flynngn@....edu>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 15:28
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Mozilla Security Advisory 2004-07-08


> Berend-Jan Wever wrote:
> > The advisory mentions that combining this with a BoF can result in remote code execution, but they totally forget to mention that formatstring exploits, integeroverflows, XSS, SQL injection, etc... might cause the same problems too. I bet they just read FD and didn't think for themselves. As far as I can see, this bug allows an attacker to remotely abuse any vulnerability a local program might be subject to, thus making any local exploit a possible remote exploit.
> 
> It would seem that one would have to be able to pass
> parameters to the file being called for these types of
> attacks to be possible.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gary Flynn
> Security Engineer
> James Madison University
> 
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