CVE-2008-3170 Information

Description

Apple Safari allows web sites to set cookies for country-specific top-level domains such as co.uk and com.au which could allow remote attackers to perform a session fixation attack and hijack a user’s HTTP session aka \Cross-Site Cooking\ a related issue to CVE-2004-0746 CVE-2004-0866 and CVE-2004-0867.

Reference

http://kuza55.blogspot.com/2008/07/some-random-safari-notes.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31128 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30192 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020539 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3444 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43839