CVE-2007-2163

Apple Safari - Denial of Service via Regular Expression Matching on Long String

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Apple Safari allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466043/100/0/threaded

Scores

EPSS 0.0108
EPSS Percentile 61.8%

Details

Status published
Products (1)
apple/safari
Published Apr 22, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026