Apple Safari 4 Beta URI NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability

Class: Input Validation Error
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes
Vulnerable Versions:
* Apple Safari 4 (528.16) Public Beta

Note: MacOS X versions not tested.

Description:
Apple Safari is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability, caused by a NULL pointer defernce bug, because it fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input within afeeds: URI. Attackers can exploit this issue to cause denial-of-service conditions on a users computer and crash the Safari process.

Any feeds: URI containing one of these characters will cause a denial-of-service condition.

Disclosure:
Vendor has been informed.

Solution:
No solution.

Credit:
Trancer
http://www.rec-sec.com

No comments:

Post a Comment