CVE-2008-2317 Information

Description

WebCore in Apple Safari does not properly perform garbage collection of JavaScript document elements which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap corruption and application crash) via a reference to the ownerNode property of a copied CSSStyleSheet object of a STYLE element as originally demonstrated on Apple iPhone before 2.0 and iPod touch before 2.0 a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1590.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Nov/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/31074 http://secunia.com/advisories/32706 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3298 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494777/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30186 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-045/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43737