PT-2009-1308 · Apple · Safari

Published 2009-01-02 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-5821

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 version 3.2

Description A memory leak issue exists, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service through excessive memory consumption and browser crash. This is achieved by using a long ALINK attribute in a BODY element within an HTML document.

Recommendations For Apple Safari version 3.2, consider updating to a newer version to mitigate the risk of memory consumption and browser crash due to the memory leak issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5821

Affected Products

Safari

References · 8

• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/safari_webkit_ml.txt · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/12408 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/33080 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/32695 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/32694 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5821 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47724 · Note
• http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html · Note