Safari/IE Combo Attack

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Safari/IE Combo Attack

Posted 06/02/2008 at 10:55am | by Roberto Baldwin

 

 

The recently discovered Safari "Carpet Bomb" exploit, just got a whole lot worse. According to Aviv Raff, the Safari exploit can be used to control Internet Explorer. IE has a flaw that allows malicious software to be run on a victims computer. You put them together, you got a zombie machine ready for shenanigans.

 

For the tag-team attack to work, users must visit a site with malicious code with Safari on a Windows machine.

 

Microsoft has issued a security advisory concerning the issue.

 

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mike

June 04, 2008 at 4:18pm

Oh my my!!!!!

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Anonymous

June 03, 2008 at 9:09am

This bug is exploitable due to the way IE is intewrgrated into Windows?

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Pinworm

June 03, 2008 at 3:56am

Grrrrrrrrrr, What a rush.....

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