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

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Message-ID: <82CB183EE984504CB89566128AEE6FD9343BDC@is6b>
From: PerrymonJ at bek.com (Perrymon, Josh L.)
Subject: Mozilla Security Advisory 2004-07-08

Understand that.

But you can't pass commands to the exe-

ex-

tftp x.x.x.x  blah blah

JP

-----Original Message-----
From: Berend-Jan Wever [mailto:skylined@...p.tudelft.nl]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:17 AM
To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] 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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