59941 : Apple Safari WebKit HTML 5 Audio / Video Media Element Loading Weakness
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2009-11-12

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2009-2841" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : The HTMLMediaElement::loadResource function in html/HTMLMediaElement.cpp in WebCore in WebKit before r49480, as used in Apple Safari before 4.0.4 on Mac OS X, does not perform the expected callbacks for HTML 5 media elements that have external URLs for media resources, which allows remote attackers to trigger sub-resource requests to arbitrary web sites via a crafted HTML document, as demonstrated by an HTML e-mail message that uses a media element for X-Confirm-Reading-To functionality, aka rdar problem 7271202.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Information Disclosure
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 4.0.4 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2009-2841 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 36996
Secunia Advisory ID: 37346 38362 40557 41856 43068
Related OSVDB ID: 59940 59942 59943
Mail List Post: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00001.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044023.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044031.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3949
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4013
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1006-1
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
Other Advisory URL: http://trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2010-002.txt

Tools & Filters

	5232

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2009-11-13 | Disagree?

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