Vulnerability in Apple Iphone

CVE-2008-3950

Off-by-one error in the _web_drawInRect:withFont:ellipsis:alignment:measureOnly function in WebKit in Safari in Apple iPhone 1.1.4 and 2.0 and iPod touch 1.1.4 and 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a JavaScript alert call with an argument that lacks breakable characters and has a length that is a multiple of the memory page size, leading to an out-of-bounds read.

EPSS: 0.071 (93.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Apple Iphone — versions 1.1.4, 2.0
Apple Ipod_touch — versions 1.1.4, 2.0
Apple Safari
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-189

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)