Apple Safari up to 4.0.5 resource management

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A vulnerability was found in Apple Safari up to 4.0.5 (Web Browser) and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via an HTML element that has custom vertical positioning.

The weakness was shared 06/11/2010 by Masahiro Yamada (TippingPoint) with Context Information Security (Website). The advisory is shared for download at vupen.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-1405. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 09/15/2021).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 47751 (FreeBSD : webkit-gtk2 -- Multiple vulnerabilities (19419b3b-92bd-11df-b140-0015f2db7bde)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165213 (SUSE Security Update for Multiple Packages (SUSE-SR:2010:015)).

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 10148.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (47751). The entries 4138, 4177, 53762 and 53709 are related to this item.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 47751
Nessus Name: FreeBSD : webkit-gtk2 -- Multiple vulnerabilities (19419b3b-92bd-11df-b140-0015f2db7bde)
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OpenVAS ID: 67711
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: webkit-gtk2
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06/07/2010 +53 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: USN-1006-1⛔
Researcher: Masahiro Yamada (TippingPoint)
Organization: Context Information Security
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2010-1405 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 26164 - Apple Safari Prior to 5.0 Webkit Remote Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability via an HTML Element, Critical
SecurityFocus: 40620 - RETIRED: Apple Safari Prior to 5.0 and 4.1 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 40105

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Created: 03/19/2015 12:22
Updated: 09/15/2021 11:02
Changes: 03/19/2015 12:22 (60), 02/28/2017 11:15 (11), 09/15/2021 10:56 (6), 09/15/2021 11:02 (1)
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