National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3231

Overview

The SSL implementation in Apple Safari before 5.1.1 on Mac OS X before 10.7 accesses uninitialized memory during the processing of X.509 certificates, which allows remote web servers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted certificate.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: apple-safari-ssl-code-exec(70568)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/70568

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5000

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5000

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 76390

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/76390

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2011-10-12-4

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00004.html