Apple Safari up to 4.0.5 resource management

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9.4$0-$5k0.00

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 code. 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 vectors related to the Node.normalize method.

The weakness was disclosed 06/11/2010 by Masahiro Yamada (TippingPoint) with Context Information Security (Website). The advisory is available at vupen.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-1759. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/15/2021).

A public exploit has been developed by MJ Keith and been published 2 years after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. 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.

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 databases at Tenable (47751) and Exploit-DB (18446). The entries 4138, 4177, 53762 and 53588 are pretty similar.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 10.0
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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: MJ Keith
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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 +32 days 🔍
06/11/2010 +4 days 🔍
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02/01/2012 +545 days 🔍
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03/19/2015 +1142 days 🔍
09/15/2021 +2372 days 🔍

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Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: USN-1006-1⛔
Researcher: Masahiro Yamada (TippingPoint)
Organization: Context Information Security
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2010-1759 (🔍)
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Vulnerability Center: 26694 - Apple Safari \x3C 5.0 Use-After-Free Vulnerability Related to the Node.Normalize Method, Medium
SecurityFocus: 40620 - RETIRED: Apple Safari Prior to 5.0 and 4.1 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 40105

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/19/2015 12:22
Updated: 09/15/2021 14:35
Changes: 03/19/2015 12:22 (59), 03/02/2017 10:58 (18), 09/15/2021 14:33 (6), 09/15/2021 14:35 (1)
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