National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3946

Overview

WebCore in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4 through 10.4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted HTML that triggers a "memory management error" in WebKit, possibly due to a buffer overflow, as originally reported for the KHTMLParser::popOneBlock function in Apple Safari 2.0.4 using Javascript that changes document.body.innerHTML within a DIV tag.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: safari-khtmlparser-code-execution(28081)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28081

External Source: BID

Name: 19250

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19250

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 27534

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/27534

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-3069

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3069

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21271

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21271

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2006-09-29

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Sep/msg00002.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-31-safari-khtmlparserpoponeblock.html

Hyperlink:http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-31-safari-khtmlparserpoponeblock.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-3852

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3852

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016957

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016957

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22187

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22187