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Apple Safari security update for CVE-2011-1344

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Apple Safari security update for CVE-2011-1344

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/10/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/05/2012
Modified
09/02/2015

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 5.0.5; iOS before 4.3.2 for iPhone, iPod, and iPad; iOS before 4.2.7 for iPhone 4 (CDMA); and possibly other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by adding children to a WBR tag and then removing the tag, related to text nodes, as demonstrated by Chaouki Bekrar during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2011.

Solution(s)

  • apple-safari-upgrade-5_0_5
  • apple-safari-windows-uninstall

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