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Multiple Web Browser Image-Based Information Leak

Overview Multiple web browsers, including Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11, Opera 9.50 beta, Apple Safari 3.0.4 and Konqueror 3.5.8, contain unsafe image loading code. Exploiting the code leads to echoing a small, random, heap memory area on the screen - as image data. In case of the web browsers with fully implemented HTML5 tag functionality (Firefox and Opera), the image data can be collected, and sent to a remote server using a simple JavaScript script.

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Publisher
HISPASEC SYSTEMS
File Format
PDF
Date Published
Nov 18, 2008
Format
White Papers
Topics
HTML, Web Browsers, Programming Languages

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GetCodec Multimedia Trojan Analysis

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Publisher: HISPASEC SYSTEMS  |  Tags: digital, malware, pcs