Apple Safari up to 5.0 memory corruption

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Apple Safari up to 5.0 (Web Browser). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The counters functionality in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1.1 on Mac OS X 10.4; and webkitgtk before 1.2.6; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document.

The weakness was published 07/30/2010 by Natalie Silvanovich (team509) with University of Szeged (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-1784. 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 $25k-$100k (estimation calculated on 09/21/2021).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 49246 (Fedora 13 : webkitgtk-1.2.4-1.fc13 (2010-14409)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 155514 (Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for WebKitGTK(ELSA-2011-0177)).

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 10064.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (49246), SecurityFocus (BID 42020†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-26644†). Similar entries are available at VDB-4171, VDB-4317, VDB-54685 and VDB-54669. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

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Web Browser

Vendor

Apple

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Safari

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commercial

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 10.0
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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 49246
Nessus Name: Fedora 13 : webkitgtk-1.2.4-1.fc13 (2010-14409)
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OpenVAS ID: 67992
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: webkit-gtk2
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07/28/2010 +83 days 🔍
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07/30/2010 +2 days 🔍
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08/02/2010 +3 days 🔍
03/19/2015 +1690 days 🔍
09/21/2021 +2378 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: USN-1006-1⛔
Researcher: Natalie Silvanovich (team509)
Organization: University of Szeged
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2010-1784 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2010-1784
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-54200

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SecurityFocus: 42020 - RETIRED: Apple Safari Prior to 5.0.1 and 4.1.1 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 41856
Vulnerability Center: 26644 - Apple Safari < 5.0.1 Counters Functionality in the CSS Implementation Remote Code Execution or DoS, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/19/2015 02:37 PM
Updated: 09/21/2021 11:59 AM
Changes: 03/19/2015 02:37 PM (62), 03/01/2017 04:11 PM (14), 09/21/2021 11:45 AM (5), 09/21/2021 11:52 AM (1), 09/21/2021 11:59 AM (1)
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