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zdiCharlie Miller, Jake Honoroff and Mark DanielZDI-08-022
HistoryApr 16, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

Apple Safari WebKit PCRE Handling Integer Overflow Vulnerability

2008-04-1600:00:00
Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff and Mark Daniel
www.zerodayinitiative.com
16

EPSS

0.099

Percentile

94.9%

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple Safari. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page. The specific flaw exists in the regular expression compiler (JavaScriptCore/pcre/pcre_compile.cpp) in WebKit. When nesting regular expressions with large repetitions, a heap overflow occurs resulting in a condition allowing the execution of arbitrary code.