CVE-2005-4504 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause application crashes and memory exhaustion in Safari and TextEdit by sending HTML files with large ROWSPAN attributes.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2005-4504?
CVE-2005-4504 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 22 Dec 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The khtml::RenderTableSection::ensureRows function in KHTMLParser in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.3 and earlier, as used by Safari and TextEdit, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via HTML files with a large ROWSPAN attribute in a TD tag.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4504?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server, Apple Safari, Apple Textedit.
How do I fix CVE-2005-4504?
No fix has been published for CVE-2005-4504 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2005-4504 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2005-4504 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Apple Mac Os X
Sources
Also known as CVE-2006-0390, GHSA-3cpr-wjhh-6mx6.