Apple Safari WebKit fails to properly handle a crafted URL

Overview

A vulnerability in the way Apple Mac OS X handles specially crafted URLs may allow an attacker to execute script in the context of another site…

Description

According to Apple Safari 3.1.1:

An issue exists in WebKit’s handling of URLs containing a colon character in the host name. Opening a maliciously crafted URL may lead to a cross-site scripting attack. This update addresses the issue through improved handling of URLs.

Note that this issue affects Safari for both Windows XP or Vista and Mac OS X.

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Impact

This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute script in the context of another site.

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Solution

Apply Apple Updates
Apple has released an update to address this vulnerability. Refer to Apple Safari 3.1.1.

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Vendor Information

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Updated: April 18, 2008

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

We have not received a statement from the vendor.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

Refer to Apple Safari 3.1.1.

If you have feedback, comments, or additional information about this vulnerability, please send us [email](<mailto:[email protected]?Subject=VU%23705529 Feedback>).

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References

<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1467&gt;

Acknowledgements

This issue is adressed in Apple Safari 3.1.1. Apple credits Robert Swiecki of the Google Security Team, and David Bloom for reporting this issue.

This document was written by Chris Taschner.

Other Information

CVE IDs:	CVE-2008-1025
Severity Metric:	9.90 Date Public: