4264Third-party advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4264 CVE-2008-3950
Apple iOS 1.1.4/2.0 / iPod 1.1.4/2.0 touch Safari WebKit - 'alert()' Remote Denial of Service
Record summary
CVE-2008-3950 has a selected CVSS score of 5.0; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
Description
Off-by-one error in the _web_drawInRect:withFont:ellipsis:alignment:measureOnly function in WebKit in Safari in Apple iPhone 1.1.4 and 2.0 and iPod touch 1.1.4 and 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a JavaScript alert call with an argument that lacks breakable characters and has a length that is a multiple of the memory page size, leading to an out-of-bounds read.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBApple iOS 1.1.4/2.0 / iPod 1.1.4/2.0 touch Safari WebKit - 'alert()' Remote Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby Nicolas EconomouNot analyzed1 file
References
5coresecurity.com
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/iphone-safari-javascript-alert-denial-of-service 20080912 CORE-2008-0126: iPhone Safari JavaScript alert Denial of Servicemailing list
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496321/100/0/threaded 31061vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31061 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3950