Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, Safari before 4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4, and Safari on Apple iPhone OS allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash), or read the SMS database or other data, via vectors related to "attribute manipulation," as demonstrated by Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2010.
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.
Exploit-DB 1
- Google Android 2.0/2.1/2.1.1 - WebKit Use-After-Free EDB-16974 · remote · Mar 14, 2011 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4220
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2010/02/15/pwn2own-2010
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4225
- APPLE-SA-2010-06-07-1 vendor-advisory
- 40196 third-party-advisory
- 40105 third-party-advisory
- ADV-2010-1373 vdb-entry
- APPLE-SA-2010-06-16-1 vendor-advisory
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20001126-245.html
- ADV-2010-1512 vdb-entry
- 40620 vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7037 vdb-entry signature
- 8128 third-party-advisory
- 1024067 vdb-entry
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4196
- APPLE-SA-2010-06-21-1 vendor-advisory
- http://twitter.com/thezdi/statuses/11001080021