Description
Apple Safari allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted data:// URL.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Apple Safari 1.x/2.0.1 - Data URI Memory Corruption EDB-26271 · dos · Sep 17, 2005 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- safari-data-uri-dos(22331) vdb-entry
- 20050917 Possible memory corruption problems in Apple Safari mailing-list
- 16875 third-party-advisory
- 14868 vdb-entry
- 19569 vdb-entry