PT-2008-2628 · Philip Hazel+1 · Pcre+1

Charlie Miller + 2 · Published 2008-04-17 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-1026

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Safari versions prior to 3.1.1

Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in the PCRE regular expression compiler, which can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This is achieved through a regular expression with large, nested repetition counts, triggering a heap-based buffer overflow.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.1.1, update to version 3.1.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-1026

Affected Products

Pcre

Safari

References · 15

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1026 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Apr/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-022 · Patch
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1467 · Patch
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3815 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31074 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/28815 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references · Note
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41859 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1250/references · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/490990/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29846 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41859 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1019870 · Note