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Re: Facebook Attach EXE Vulnerability


From: Dave <mrx () propergander org uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:38:00 +0100

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I think they need a better way to sift the wheat from the chaff.

Numbers can be magic and eight bytes is enough of a taste to tell honey from vinegar.


Nice find
Dave





On 28/10/2011 18:56, Pablo Ximenes wrote:
I see. I have seen this kinda behavior from vendors too often. I supose the reason for this is the flood of false 
positives. I think they
need a better way to sift the wheat from the chaff.

Congrats for your work!

2011/10/28 Nathan Power <np () securitypentest com>

I was basically told that Facebook didn't see it as an issue and I was puzzled by that. Ends up the Facebook 
security team had issues
reproducing my work and that's why they initially disgarded it. After publishing, the Facebook security team 
re-examined the issue and by
working with me they seem to have been able to reproduce the bug.


Nathan Power www.securitypentest.com


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Pablo Ximenes <pablo () ximen es> wrote:

Not fixed yet. At least not yesterday when I checked.

Nathan, didn't Facebook ask for some time to fix this bug after they have acknowledged it?


Pablo Ximenes <http://ximen.es/>http://ximen.es/ <http://twitter.com/pabloximenes>http://twitter.com/pabloximenes

Em 27/10/2011, às 19:29, Joshua Thomas < <rappercrazzy () gmail com> rappercrazzy () gmail com> escreveu:

can't believe such was on FB  .... wahahaha !!! lol ....rofl ...

When was this discovered and fixed ?


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Nathan Power < <np () securitypentest com><np () securitypentest com> np () 
securitypentest com> wrote:


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Summary:

When using the Facebook 'Messages' tab, there is a feature to attach a file. Using this feature normally, the site 
won't allow a user
to attach an executable file. A bug was discovered to subvert this security mechanisms. Note, you do NOT have to 
be friends with the
user to send them a message with an attachment.


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Read the rest of this advisory here:

<http://www.securitypentest.com/2011/10/facebook-attach-exe-vulnerability.html><http://www.securitypentest.com/2011/10/facebook-attach-exe-vulnerability.html>


http://www.securitypentest.com/2011/10/facebook-attach-exe-vulnerability.html


Enjoy :)


Nathan Power <http://www.securitypentest.com> <http://www.securitypentest.com> www.securitypentest.com

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