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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 14:43:37 +0000
From: Thomas Williams <thomas@...illiams.me.uk>
To: Mario Vilas <mvilas@...il.com>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
 M Kirschbaum <pr0ix@...oo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [SPAM] [Bayesian][bayesTestMode] Re: Google
	vulnerabilities with PoC

I signed onto this mailing list as an interested person in security - not to see everyone moan. We will all have differences in opinion and we should all respect that. This goes for everyone and I feel I speak for a lot of people here, everyone needs to grow up, and shut up.



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On 15 Mar 2014, at 13:43, Mario Vilas <mvilas@...il.com> wrote:

> Sockpuppet much?
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 2:35 PM, M Kirschbaum <pr0ix@...oo.co.uk> wrote:
> Gynvael Coldwind,
>  
> What Alfred has reiterated is that this is a security vulnerability irrelevantly of whether it qualifies for credit.
>  
> It is an unusual one, but still a security vulnerability. Anyone who says otherwise is blind, has little or no experience in hands on security, or either has a different agenda.
>  
> The obvious here is that Google dismissed it as a non-security issue which I find rather sad and somewhat ridiculous.
>  
> Even if we asked Andrew Tanenbaum about ,I suspect his answers wouldn't be much different.
>  
> Rgds,
>  
> 
> On Saturday, 15 March 2014, 12:45, Gynvael Coldwind <gynvael@...dwind.pl> wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I think the discussion digressed a little from the topic. Let's try to steer it back on it. 
> 
> What would make this a security vulnerability is one of the three standard outcomes:
> 
> - information leak - i.e. leaking sensitive information that you normally do not have access to
> - remote code execution - in this case it would be:
> -- XSS - i.e. executing attacker provided JS/etc code in another user's browser, in the context *of a sensitive, non-sandboxed* domain (e.g. youtube.com)
> -- server-side code execution - i.e. executing attacker provided code on the youtube servers
> - denial of service - I think we all agree this bug doesn't increase the chance of a DoS; since you upload files that fail to be processed (so the CPU-consuming re-encoding is never run) I would argue that this decreases the chance of DoS if anything
> 
> Which leaves us with the aforementioned RCE.
> 
> I think we all agree that if Mr. Lemonias presents a PoC that uses the functionality he discovered to, either:
> (A) display a standard XSS alert(document.domain) in a sensitive domain (i.e. *.youtube.com or *.google.com, etc) for a different (test) user
> OR
> (B) execute code to fetch the standard /etc/passwd file from the youtube server and send it to him,
> then we will be convinced that this is vulnerability and will be satisfied by the presented proof.
> 
> I think that further discussion without this proof is not leading anywhere.
> 
> 
> One more note - in the discussion I noticed some arguments were tried to be justified or backed by saying "I am this this and that, and have this many years of experience", e.g. (the first one I could find):
> 
> "have worked for Lumension as a security consultant for more than a decade."
> 
> Please note, that neither experience, nor job title, proves exploitability of a *potential* bug. Working exploits do.
> 
> 
> That's it from me. I'm looking forward to seeing the RCE exploits (be it client or server side).
> 
> Kind regards,
> Gynvael Coldwind
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> “There's a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
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