{"id":264,"date":"2007-01-07T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T21:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=264"},"modified":"2008-07-11T12:56:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T20:56:02","slug":"moab-omniweb-has-a-vulnerability-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"MOAB: OmniWeb Has a Vulnerability Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/omniweb.gif\" alt=\"Mac OmniWeb\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Month of Apple Bugs (MOAB) is a group of security experts who have chosen January 2007 as the security month for Mac OS X applications.  MOAB says that The Omni Group&#8217;s web browser, OmniWeb, has a security risk.  <\/p>\n<p>As of January 7, 2006, the latest version of OmniWeb is 5.5.1.  OmniWeb has a few unique functions that other web browsers don&#8217;t have.  Especially, its &#8216;Page Info&#8217; is exceptional in that it allows the user to access and download files that other web browsers may not be able to reach.<\/p>\n<p>MOAB, as tested on version 5.5.1, says that OmniWeb has &#8220;a format string vulnerability in the handling of Javascript alert() function.&#8221;  This vulnerability could allow an exploiter to execute a malicious attack remotely.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the button to read MOAB&#8217;s report. <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.info-pull.com\/moab\/MOAB-07-01-2007.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/graphics\/button.gif\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" alt=\"VTC\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Month of Apple Bugs (MOAB) is a group of security experts who have chosen January 2007 as the security month for Mac OS X applications. MOAB says that The Omni Group&#8217;s web browser, OmniWeb, has a security risk. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=264\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-mac","category-internet-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}