PT-2007-3505 · Apple · Safari

Published 2007-04-22 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-2163

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apple Safari (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a browser crash, by using JavaScript to match a regular expression against a long string. This can be achieved with a regular expression such as /(.)*/.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-2163

Affected Products

Safari

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2163 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/466043/100/0/threaded · Note