CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.3%
Apple Safari web browser is prone to denial of service.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:apple:safari";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800100");
script_version("2023-07-27T05:05:08+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-27 05:05:08 +0000 (Thu, 27 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-01-13 15:40:34 +0100 (Tue, 13 Jan 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-5821");
script_name("Apple Safari WebKit Property Memory Leak Remote DoS Vulnerability");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/safari_webkit_ml.txt");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33080");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("secpod_apple_safari_detect_win_900003.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("AppleSafari/Version");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Apple Safari 3.2 and prior on Windows (Any).");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to WebKit library which fails to validate the user
input via a long ALINK attribute in a BODY element in an HTML document.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure
of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer
release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Apple Safari web browser is prone to denial of service.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation allows attackers to execute arbitrary code
or can even crash the browser.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
exit(0);
vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];
if(version_is_less_equal(version:vers, test_version:"3.525.26.13")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"None", install_path:path);
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);