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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-0848 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2006-0848 |
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Description: The "Open 'safe' files after downloading" option in Safari on Apple Mac OS X allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into downloading a __MACOSX folder that contains metadata (resource fork) that invokes the Terminal, which automatically interprets the script using bash, as demonstrated using a ZIP file that contains a script with a safe file extension. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/24808 ST 1015652 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA18963 OSVDB 23510 MISC http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/69862 http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/numerik/staff/lehn/macosx.html CONFIRM http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382 CERT-VN 999708 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-053A.html BID 16736 |
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