You are passing parameters. For instance, when you invoke a media player through shell:xxx.mp3, the filename xxx.mp3 is the parameter.
Cheers, SkyLined ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Flynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 15:28 Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Mozilla Security Advisory 2004-07-08 > Berend-Jan Wever wrote: > > The advisory mentions that combining this with a BoF can result in remote code > > execution, but they totally forget to mention that formatstring exploits, > > integeroverflows, XSS, SQL injection, etc... might cause the same problems too. I > > bet they just read FD and didn't think for themselves. As far as I can see, this > > bug allows an attacker to remotely abuse any vulnerability a local program might > > be subject to, thus making any local exploit a possible remote exploit. > > It would seem that one would have to be able to pass > parameters to the file being called for these types of > attacks to be possible. > > > -- > Gary Flynn > Security Engineer > James Madison University > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
