A vulnerability has been found in Apple iPhone 1.1.2 (Smartphone Operating System) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the component Safari. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

Mobile Safari on Apple iPhone 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and device crash) via certain JavaScript code that constructs a long string and an array containing long string elements, possibly a related issue to CVE-2006-3677. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

The weakness was published 02/12/2008 (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2008-0729 since 02/12/2008. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by c0ntex and been published before and not just after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 19 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (39998) and Exploit-DB (4978).

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• Apple

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• iPhone

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• 1.1.2

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• commercial

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