Apple Safari prior 2.0 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Apple Safari. This vulnerability affects unknown code. This manipulation causes resource management. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2008-2317. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apple Safari (Web Browser). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

WebCore in Apple Safari does not properly perform garbage collection of JavaScript document elements, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap corruption and application crash) via a reference to the ownerNode property of a copied CSSStyleSheet object of a STYLE element, as originally demonstrated on Apple iPhone before 2.0 and iPod touch before 2.0, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1590.

The bug was discovered 07/11/2008. The weakness was shared 07/14/2008 by Hiromitsu Takagi (TippingPoint) with Zero Day Initiative (Website). The advisory is shared at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-2317 since 05/18/2008. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 3 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 34773 (Mac OS X : Apple Safari < 3.2), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 116046 (Apple Safari Prior to 3.2.0 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (APPLE-SA-2008-11-13)).

Upgrading to version 2.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 5 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (43737), Tenable (34773), SecurityFocus (BID 30186†), OSVDB (47290†) and Secunia (SA32706†). The entries VDB-1816, VDB-43187, VDB-43185 and VDB-43184 are related to this item. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 34773
Nessus Name: Mac OS X : Apple Safari < 3.2
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Safari 2.0

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03/17/2015 +2311 days 🔍
08/21/2019 +1618 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: apple.com

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: Hiromitsu Takagi (TippingPoint)
Organization: Zero Day Initiative
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2008-2317 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-2317
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-43189
X-Force: 43737
SecurityFocus: 30186 - Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Prior to Version 2.0 Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 32706 - Apple Safari Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 47290 - CVE-2008-2317 - Apple - Safari - Denial-of-Service Issue
Vulnerability Center: 20023 - Apple Safari before 3.2 on iPod Touch and iPhone Style Sheet Elements Remote Code Execution and DoS, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2008-2094

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/17/2015 12:19
Updated: 08/21/2019 06:27
Changes: 03/17/2015 12:19 (77), 08/21/2019 06:27 (10)
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Cache ID: 216:D59:103

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