Title: Apple Safari Web Browser Infinite Array Sort Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Apple Safari Web Browser is prone to a vulnerability that may result in a browser crash. This issue is exposed when the browser performs an infinite JavaScript array sort operation.
The source of the crash appears to be that the sort() method is called on an Array object recursively until stack memory is exhausted, resulting in a stack overflow exception. It does not seem to result in corruption of critical data that will be copied into registers (such as EIP) and thus allow for control of execution flow. For this reason it is conjectured that this vulnerability will only result in a denial of service and is not further exploitable to execute arbitrary code, though this is not confirmed.
Affected Products:
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.0
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.1
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.2
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.3
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.4
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.5
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.6
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.7
- Apple Mac OS X 10.2.8
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.0
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.1
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.2
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.3
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.4
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.5
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.6
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3.7
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.0
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.1
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.2
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.3
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.4
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.5
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.6
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.7
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.2.8
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.0
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.1
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.2
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.3
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.4
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.5
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.6
- Apple Mac OS X Server 10.3.7
- Apple Safari 1.0.0
- Apple Safari 1.1.0
- Apple Safari 1.2.0
- Apple Safari 1.2.1
- Apple Safari 1.2.2
- Apple Safari 1.2.3
- Apple Safari Beta 2
References:
- Apple: Safari Homepage
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