Apple Safari 2.0/2.0.1/2.0.2/2.0.3 denial of service

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Apple Safari 2.0/2.0.1/2.0.2/2.0.3 (Web Browser). Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Apple Safari 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute code via an invalid FRAME tag, possibly due to (1) multiple SCROLLING attributes with no values, or (2) a SRC attribute with no value. NOTE: due to lack of diagnosis by the researcher, it is unclear which vector is responsible.

The bug was discovered 04/19/2006. The weakness was released 04/21/2006 by Tom Ferris (Website). The advisory is available at vupen.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-1987 since 04/21/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/17/2019).

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 33605.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (25946). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 30222, 29847, 29845 and 29844.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Researcher: Tom Ferris
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2006-1987 (🔍)
X-Force: 25946
Vulnerability Center: 11324 - Apple Safari DoS via FRAME Tag, High
SecurityFocus: 17634 - Apple Mac OS X Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 19686 - Mac OS X Multiple Potential Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 24823 - Apple Mac OS X Safari HTML tag handling denial of service
Vupen: ADV-2006-1452

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 06/17/2019 12:29
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (68), 06/17/2019 12:29 (4)
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