CVE-2010-0050 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2010-0050?

CVE-2010-0050 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Apple Iphone Os, published on 12 Mar 2010. 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

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via an HTML document with improperly nested tags.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0050?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Apple Iphone Os, Apple Safari, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2010-0050?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-0050 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2010-0050 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2010-0050 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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• CVE-2016-4657 Apple iOS Webkit Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-x35p-q7vp-559r.