CVE-2008-3950

EPSS 7.1%

Off-by-one error in the _web_drawInRect:withFont:ellipsis:alignment:measureOnly function in WebKit in Safari in Apple iPhone 1.1.4 and 2.0 and iPod touch 1.1.4 and 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a JavaScript alert call with an argument that lacks breakable characters and has a length that is a multiple of the memory page size, leading to an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

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References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4264 http://www.coresecurity.com/content/iphone-safari-javascript-alert-denial-of-service http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496321/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31061