CVE-2008-5821
Apple Safari 3.2 WebKit - 'alink' Property Memory Leak Remote Denial of Service
Severity Score
6.5
*CVSS v3
Exploit Likelihood
*EPSS
Affected Versions
*CPE
Public Exploits
5
*Multiple Sources
Exploited in Wild
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*KEV
Decision
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*SSVC
Descriptions
Memory leak in WebKit.dll in WebKit, as used by Apple Safari 3.2 on Windows Vista SP1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and browser crash) via a long ALINK attribute in a BODY element in an HTML document.
Fuga de memoria en WebKit.dll en Webkit, como el utilizado en Safari v3.2 en Windows Vista SP1, permite a atacantes remotos provocar una denegación de servicio (consumo de memoria y cuelgue del navegador) a través de un atributo ALINK largo en un elemento BODY en un documento HTML.
*Credits:
N/A
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Privileges Required
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* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
- Decision:-
Exploitation
Automatable
Tech. Impact
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
- 2009-01-01 First Exploit
- 2009-01-02 CVE Reserved
- 2009-01-02 CVE Published
- 2024-08-07 CVE Updated
- 2025-01-08 EPSS Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
- CWE-399: Resource Management Errors
CAPEC
References (7)
| URL | Tag | Source |
|---|---|---|
| http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html | X_refsource_misc | |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47724 | Vdb Entry |
| URL | Date | SRC |
|---|---|---|
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32694 | 2009-01-01 | |
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32695 | 2009-01-01 | |
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/12408 | 2010-04-26 | |
| http://packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/safari_webkit_ml.txt | 2024-08-07 | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33080 | 2024-08-07 |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
| Apple Search vendor "Apple" | Safari Search vendor "Apple" for product "Safari" | 3.2 Search vendor "Apple" for product "Safari" and version "3.2" | - |
Affected
| in | Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft" | Windows Vista Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Windows Vista" | * | sp1 |
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