CVE-2010-1131 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Apple Safari on Windows by sending an HTML document with many object tags, requiring user interaction to view the page.
- 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-2010-1131?
CVE-2010-1131 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Safari, published on 26 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
JavaScriptCore.dll, as used in Apple Safari 4.0.5 on Windows XP SP3, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an HTML document composed of many successive occurrences of the <object> substring.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-1131?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Apple Safari.
How do I fix CVE-2010-1131?
No fix has been published for CVE-2010-1131 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-2010-1131 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2010-1131 exists.
Public exploit code: 2 Exploit-DB entries.
Other vulnerabilities in Apple Safari
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2gr5-vg95-v4pw.