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TITLE:
OmniWeb Local Domain Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14985

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14985/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
OmniWeb 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/4157/

DESCRIPTION:
David Remahl has reported a vulnerability in OmniWeb, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error where a malicious web
site can load and execute arbitrary HTML and JavaScript code in
context of the local domain. This can e.g. be exploited to disclose
the content of arbitrary files via the "XMLHttpRequest" JavaScript
component.

This is related to vulnerability 8 in:
SA14974

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 5.1. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
A fix will reportedly be released soon.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
David Remahl

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
David Remahl:
http://remahl.se/david/vuln/001/

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA14974:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14974/

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