Serious Flaw on OS X in Apple Safari
Via The SAN ISC Daily Handler's Diary.
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
posted by Fergie @ 2/20/2006 05:05:00 PM
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