National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2401

Overview

CRLF injection vulnerability in WebCore in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.9 and later, and iPhone before 1.0.1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via LF characters in an XMLHttpRequest request, which are not filtered when serializing headers via the setRequestHeader function. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Impact

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#845708

Name: VU#845708

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/845708

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/advisories/wp-07-0002.txt

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/advisories/wp-07-0002.txt

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018281

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018281

External Source: BID

Name: 24598

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24598

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25786

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25786

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2007-06-22

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Jun/msg00003.html

External Source: XF

Name: macos-xmlhttprequest-header-injection(35017)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35017

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2731

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2731

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2316

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2316

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2296

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2296

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070625 Safari XMLHttpRequest HTTP header injection

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/472198/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26287

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26287

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 36449

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/36449

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306173

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306173

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305759

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305759