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zdiCharlie Miller, Jake Honoroff and Mark DanielZDI-08-022
HistoryApr 16, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

Apple Safari WebKit PCRE Handling Integer Overflow Vulnerability

2008-04-1600:00:00
Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff and Mark Daniel
www.zerodayinitiative.com
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6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.085 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.4%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple Safari. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page. The specific flaw exists in the regular expression compiler (JavaScriptCore/pcre/pcre_compile.cpp) in WebKit. When nesting regular expressions with large repetitions, a heap overflow occurs resulting in a condition allowing the execution of arbitrary code.

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.085 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.4%