CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1026
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-04-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Integer overflow in the PCRE regular expression compiler (JavaScriptCore/pcre/pcre_compile.cpp) in Apple WebKit, as used in Safari before 3.1.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression with large, nested repetition counts, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected configurations
• apple safari 3
• apple safari 3.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Apr/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29846 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31074 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3815 securityreason.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1467 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490990/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28815 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019870 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1250/references www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references www.vupen.com
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-022 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41859 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Apr/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29846 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31074 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3815 securityreason.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1467 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490990/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28815 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019870 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1250/references www.vupen.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references www.vupen.com
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-022 Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41859 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com