National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-0729

Overview

Mobile Safari on Apple iPhone 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and device crash) via certain JavaScript code that constructs a long string and an array containing long string elements, possibly a related issue to CVE-2006-3677. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: BID

Name: 27442

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27442

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080519 Re: Apple iPhone 1.1.3 remote DoS exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/492225/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080205 Apple iPhone 1.1.3 remote DoS exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/487607/100/0/threaded

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 4978

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4978

External Source: XF

Name: iphone-mobilesafari-dos(39998)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/39998

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3630

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3630