Description
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.
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 iOS Mobile Safari - Memory Exhaustion Remote Denial of Service EDB-31057 · dos · Jan 24, 2008 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- iphone-mobilesafari-dos(39998) vdb-entry
- 20080205 Apple iPhone 1.1.3 remote DoS exploit mailing-list
- 4978 exploit
- 3630 third-party-advisory
- 20080519 Re: Apple iPhone 1.1.3 remote DoS exploit mailing-list
- 27442 vdb-entry