CVE-2009-3271 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2009-3271?

CVE-2009-3271 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Iphone Os, published on 21 Sep 2009. 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

Apple Safari on iPhone OS 3.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long tel: URL in the SRC attribute of an IFRAME element.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-3271?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Iphone Os, Apple Safari.

How do I fix CVE-2009-3271?

No fix has been published for CVE-2009-3271 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-2009-3271 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-3271 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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