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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2317
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CVE-2008-2317

Description:
WebCore in Apple Safari does not properly perform garbage collection of JavaScript document elements, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap corruption and application crash) via a reference to the ownerNode property of a copied CSSStyleSheet object of a STYLE element, as originally demonstrated on Apple iPhone before 2.0 and iPod touch before 2.0, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1590.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43737

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA31074

MISC
  http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-045/

CONFIRM
  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3298

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/494777/100/0/threaded

BID
  30186

APPLE
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Nov/msg00001.html
  http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html


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