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Safari HTTPS Overflow
From: Gilbert Verdian <gverdian () neoresearch org>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:08:10 +1000
Found a bug in the latest Safari that comes with Panther 10.3.9 - Safari 1.3 (v312), previous versions of Panther are also vulnerable.
The problem is with the URI input for HTTPS which causes Safari to crash by inputting a large amount of A's i.e.
https:// AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Did a debug of the crash, but it kept crashing in a spin_lock while reading from the text segment. Will post more details when have more info on it.
Gilbert Verdian neoresearch.org
Current thread:
- Safari HTTPS Overflow Gilbert Verdian (Apr 28)
- Re: Safari HTTPS Overflow David Riley (Apr 29)
- Re: Safari HTTPS Overflow Braden Thomas (Apr 29)