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Apple Safari Denial Of Service Vulnerability - Jul09

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Denial of Service

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Wont Fix

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The host is installed with Apple Safari web browser and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The flaws are due to - Error in 'CFCharacterSetInitInlineBuffer' method in CoreFoundation.dll when processing high-bit character in a URL fragment for an unspecified protocol. - Error in implementing the file 'protocol handler' when processing vectors involving an unspecified HTML tag.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Apple Safari 3.2.3 on Windows.

Solution

Solution

No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.

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