National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5821

Overview

Memory leak in WebKit.dll in WebKit, as used by Apple Safari 3.2 on Windows Vista SP1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and browser crash) via a long ALINK attribute in a BODY element in an HTML document.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: apple-safari-alink-dos(47724)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47724

External Source: BID

Name: 33080

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33080

External Source: MISC

Name: http://packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/safari_webkit_ml.txt

Hyperlink:http://packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/safari_webkit_ml.txt

External Source: MISC

Name: http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html

Hyperlink:http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html