Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Safari, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, or to compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
Apple Safari Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29393
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29393/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass, Cross Site Scripting, Exposure of sensitive
information, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
Safari 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/17989/
Safari 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/5289/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Safari, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, or to compromise
a vulnerable system.
1) An error in the processing of "javascript:" URLs can be exploited
to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in context of another site
via a specially crafted web page.
2) An error exists the handling of web pages that have explicitly set
the document.domain property. This can be exploited to conduct
cross-site scripting attacks in sites that set the document.domain
property or between HTTP and HTTPS sites with the same
document.domain.
3) An error in Web Inspector can be exploited to inject script code
that will run in other domains and can read the user's file system
when a specially crafted page is inspected.
4) A security issue exists with the Kotoeri input method, which can
result in exposing the password field on the display when reverse
conversion is requested.
5) An error within the handling of the "window.open()" function can
be used to change the security context of a web page to the caller's
context. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary script code in
the user's security context via a specially crafted web page.
6) The frame navigation policy is not enforced for Java applets. This
can be exploited to conduct cross-site scripting attacks using java
and to gain escalated privileges by enticing a user to open a
specially crafted web page.
7) An unspecified error in the handling of the document.domain
property can be exploited to conduct cross-site scripting attacks
when a user visits a specially crafted web page.
8) An error exists in the handling of the history object. This can be
exploited to inject javascript code that will run in the context of
other frames.
9) A boundary error exists in the handling of javascript regular
expressions, which can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a
specially crafted web page.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.
10) An error in WebKit allows method instances from one frame to be
called in the context of another frame. This can be exploited to
conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
The vulnerabilities are reported in Safari prior to version 3.1.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.1.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Robert Swiecki of Google Information Security Team
2, 3, 5, 6) Adam Barth and Collin Jackson of Stanford University
10) Eric Seidel of the WebKit Open Source Project, and Tavis Ormandy
and Will Drewry of Google Security Team
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Apple:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307563
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