Re: Mozilla Security Advisory 2004-07-08

["Berend-Jan Wever" <skylined () edup tudelft nl>]

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 () jmu edu>
To: <full-disclosure () lists 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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