RE: Serious Flaw on OS X in Apple Safari

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

So is the whole shebang thing a red herring?

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
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Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
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-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Anthony Rodgers
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 8:33 PM
To: FunSec [List]
Subject: Re: [funsec] Serious Flaw on OS X in Apple Safari

This looks like it might be quite serious, unlike previous ones. I have
tested the POC, and can tell you that:

1. It does not need Safari to work
2. It does not need auto-open to work

That information is a red herring. The vulnerability is an OS vulnerability
that is described in paragraph 4 of the article:

"If a script is given an extension such as "jpg" or "mov" and stored within
a ZIP archive, Mac OS X will add a binary metadata file to the archive which
determines its association. This metafile instructs the operating system on
another Mac to open that file with the Terminal application -- regardless of
its extension or the symbol displayed in the Finder. The Terminal will
redirect scripts without an interpreter line directly to bash, the standard
shell in OS X."

All it needs is a zip file with meta-data in it that makes it behave like a
shell script, and a file name extension that makes it look like a jpg (or
any other type of 'friendly' file. This zip file, or its resultant contents,
can then be downloaded from a web site (with or without Safari, with or
without auto-open), emailed, or whatever.

Regards,
--
Anthony

On 20-Feb-06, at 5:09 PM, Fergie wrote:

> Via The SAN ISC Daily Handler's Diary.
>
> [snip]
>
> We received notice from Juergen Schmidt, editor-in-chief at heise.de, 
> that a serious vulnerability has been found in Apple Safari on OS X. 
> "In its default configuration shell commands are execute[d] simply by 
> visting a web site - no user interaction required." This could be 
> really bad. Attackers can run shell scripts on your computer remotely 
> just by visiting a malicious website.
>
> Full text of the article: http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/
> news/69862
>
> Proof of concept from the original discoverer (Michael Lehn):  
> http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/~lehn/mac.html
>
> [snip]
>
> http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1138
>
> - ferg
>
>
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg () netzero net or 
> fergdawg () sbcglobal net  ferg's tech blog: 
> http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>
>
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