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Secunia Advisory SA23624

OmniWeb "alert()" Format String Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA23624
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2007-01-08
Last Update 2007-01-17
   
Popularity 11,294 views
Comments 0 comments

Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact DoS
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
OmniWeb 5.x
Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-0148 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

Kevin Finisterre has reported a vulnerability in OmniWeb, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error when handling the "alert()" Javascript function and may allow execution of arbitrary code via a specially crafted web page.

The vulnerability is reported in version 5.5.1 (v607.5) running on Mac OS X 10.4.8. Prior versions may also be affected.


Solution
Update to version 5.5.2.

Provided and/or discovered by
Kevin Finisterre

Changelog
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-07-01-2007.html

Deep Links
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