RISKS: YANSF (Yet Another Netscape Security Flaw)

[Steven Weller]

Reposted from RISKS:

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Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 17:11:34 -0400
From: Ed Felten <felten at CS.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Netscape 2.02 RISK

SECURITY FLAW IN NETSCAPE 2.02

We have discovered an attack that allows a Java applet running under
Netscape Navigator 2.02 to generate and execute arbitrary machine code.
The attack combines a new security bug found by Tom Cargill with some ideas
previously discovered by the Princeton team.  We have implemented a
demonstration applet that deletes a file.  We are not yet releasing
technical details.

For more information, contact Ed Felten (felten at cs.princeton.edu,
609-258-5906), or see http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/News.html

Tom Cargill
Independent Consultant
http://www.csn.net/~cargill/

Dirk Balfanz, Drew Dean, Ed Felten, Dan Wallach
Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/

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