Apple iPhone MobileSafari denial of service
| iphone-mobilesafari-dos (39998) |  Low Risk |
Description:
The Apple iPhone MobileSafari built-in Web browser is vulnerable to a denial of service. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using JavaScript code containing an overly long string to consume all available memory resources.
Platforms Affected:
- Apple, iPhone 1.1.2
- Apple, iPhone 1.1.3
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 4, 2009.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- Apple Web site, iPhone at http://www.apple.com/iphone/.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Feb 05 2008 - 14:43:06 CST, Apple iPhone 1.1.3 remote DoS exploit at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-02/0046.html.
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:53:58 +0000, iPhone remote DoS :( at http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2008/Jan/0473.html.
- BID-27442: Apple iPhone Mobile Safari Memory Exhaustion Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2008-0729: Mobile Safari on Apple iPhone 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and device crash) via certain JavaScript code that constructs a long string and an array containing long string elements, possibly a related issue to CVE-2006-3677. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Reported:
Jan 23, 2008
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