full-disclosure - Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability

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Message-ID: <49A6DDB2.7040303@Gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:21:38 +0200
From: Trancer <mtrancer@...il.com>
To: jf <jf@...glingpointers.net>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	Thierry Zoller <Thierry@...ler.lu>
Subject: Re: Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer
 Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability

iPhone is not affected by this issue.

jf wrote:
> also keep in mind that null ptr deref's can sometimes be exploitable--
> especially on certain processors that store important things at 0x0;
> of which, from what i recall, the iphone is one.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Thierry Zoller wrote:
>
>   
>> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:21:18 +0100
>> From: Thierry Zoller <Thierry@...ler.lu>
>> To: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
>> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Apple Safari 4 Beta feeds: URI NULL Pointer
>>     Dereference Denial of, Service Vulnerability
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Just because a bug class can crash an application
>>> doesn't make it a security issue.
>>>       
>> A remotely triggerable DoS condition is a security issue per se, my
>> opinion about the trend to remove the A in CIA for statisitca reasons
>> can be read here :
>> http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/01/open-letter-remove-a-in-cia-or-venting.html
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>
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-- 
Moshe :: Trancer
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