CVE-2008-2317

Apple Safari - Remote Code Execution via JavaScript Garbage Collection Heap Corruption

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (10)

Core 10

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3298

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494777/100/0/threaded

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_apple

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Nov/msg00001.html

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-045/

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30186

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/32706

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_apple

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html

Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43737

Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/31074

Scores

EPSS 0.0770

EPSS Percentile 94.0%

Details

CWE

CWE-399

Status published

Products (1)

apple/safari

Published Jul 14, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026