Re: Mozilla Security Advisory 2004-07-08

[Gary Flynn <flynngn () jmu edu>]

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.


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Gary Flynn
Security Engineer
James Madison University

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