Apple Safari up to 4.0.5 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Apple Safari up to 4.0.5 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. This manipulation causes resource management. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-1758. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Apple Safari up to 4.0.5 (Web Browser) and classified as very critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. 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:

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 involving DOM Range objects.

The weakness was released 06/11/2010 by Masahiro Yamada (TippingPoint) with Context Information Security (Website). The advisory is shared at vupen.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2010-1758. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/30/2025).

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 databases at Tenable (47751), SecurityFocus (BID 40620†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-26554†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-4138, VDB-4177, VDB-53762 and VDB-53588. 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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Remote: Yes

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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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05/06/2010 🔍
06/07/2010 +32 days 🔍
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06/11/2010 +4 days 🔍
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07/26/2010 +45 days 🔍
03/19/2015 +1697 days 🔍
03/30/2025 +3664 days 🔍

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-2010-1758 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2010-1758
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-53581

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SecurityFocus: 40620 - RETIRED: Apple Safari Prior to 5.0 and 4.1 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 40105
Vulnerability Center: 26554 - Apple Safari WebKit Remote Arbitrary Code Execution or DoS Vulnerability via DOM Range Objects, Medium

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Created: 03/19/2015 12:22
Updated: 03/30/2025 04:27
Changes: 03/19/2015 12:22 (58), 03/01/2017 10:09 (11), 09/15/2021 14:25 (6), 09/15/2021 14:30 (1), 03/30/2025 04:27 (16)
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