National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2420

Overview

Apple Safari 3.2.3 does not properly implement the file: protocol handler, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (launch of multiple Windows Explorer instances) via vectors involving an unspecified HTML tag, possibly a related issue to CVE-2009-1703.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 35482

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35482

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090623 n.runs-SA-2009.005 - Apple Safari - Information disclosure

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/504480/100/0/threaded