CVE-2009-2841 Information

Description

The HTMLMediaElement::loadResource function in html/HTMLMediaElement.cpp in WebCore in WebKit before r49480 as used in Apple Safari before 4.0.4 on Mac OS X does not perform the expected callbacks for HTML 5 media elements that have external URLs for media resources which allows remote attackers to trigger sub-resource requests to arbitrary web sites via a crafted HTML document as demonstrated by an HTML e-mail message that uses a media element for X-Confirm-Reading-To functionality aka rdar problem 7271202.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Nov/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010/Feb/msg00000.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044023.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044031.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html http://osvdb.org/59941 http://secunia.com/advisories/37346 http://secunia.com/advisories/40557 http://secunia.com/advisories/41856 http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3949 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4013 http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/apple-patches-critical-safari-vulnerabilities-111109 http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/49480 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36996 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023167 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1006-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3217 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1801 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2722 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525791 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54242