CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2317
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-07-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• apple safari
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Nov/msg00001.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31074 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32706 secunia.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3298 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494777/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30186 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references Vendor Advisory
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-045/ www.zerodayinitiative.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43737 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Nov/msg00001.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31074 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32706 secunia.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3298 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494777/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30186 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references Vendor Advisory
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-045/ www.zerodayinitiative.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43737 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com