PT-2008-3808 · Apple · Safari

Peter Vreudegnhil · Published 2008-07-14 · Updated 2022-08-09 · CVE-2008-2317

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

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

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

Description: The issue is related to improper garbage collection of JavaScript document elements in WebCore. This can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service, resulting in heap corruption and application crash. The exploitation is demonstrated via a reference to the ownerNode property of a copied CSSStyleSheet object of a STYLE element.

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-2317

Affected Products

Safari

References · 12

• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3298 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31074 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2317 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Nov/msg00001.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43737 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32706 · Note
• http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-045 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/494777/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43737 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/30186 · Note