RCE in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2010-1770
WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, Apple Safari before 4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4, and Google Chrome before 5.0.375.70 does not properly handle a transformation of a text node that has the IBM1147 character set, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document containing a BR element, related to a "type checking issue."
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.048 (91.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.048 · newest: 0.048 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X — versions 10.4.11, 10.4.7, 10.6.3
- Apple Mac OS X Server — versions 10.4.11, 10.4.7, 10.6.3
- Apple Safari
- Apple Webkit
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Windows 7
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- Microsoft Windows Xp
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 10.04.4, 9.10
- openSUSE — versions 11.3, 11.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT4220 (Vendor Advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2722 (Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/43068 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Sep/msg00002.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory)
- zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-093/ (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT4334 (Vendor Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1006-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/41856 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 (Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)