Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Apple Safari, which could be exploited by attackers to disclose sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. These issues are caused by buffer overflow, uninitialized memory access, memory corruption, signedness and design errors when processing malformed data. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2584 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-2780

Affected Products

Apple Safari versions prior to 3.2

Solution

Apple Safari version 3.2 for Windows :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/safari32forwindows.html

Apple Safari version 3.2 for Tiger :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/safari32fortiger.html

Apple Safari version 3.2 for Leopard :
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/safari32forleopard.html

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3155
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3298

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by the vendor, Robbie Joosten (bioinformatics@school), David Gunnells (University of Alabama at Birmingham), Anthony de Almeida Lopes (Outpost24 AB), Chris Evans and Robert Swiecki (Google Security Team), SkyLined (Google), ZDI, Billy Rios (Microsoft), and Nitesh Dhanjani (Ernst & Young).

ChangeLog

2008-11-14 : Initial release

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