Advisory Details

April 3rd, 2014

Apple Mobile Safari isindex Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2014-1290
CVSS SCORE	6.8, AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AFFECTED VENDORS	Apple
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Safari
TREND MICRO CUSTOMER PROTECTION	Trend Micro TippingPoint IPS customers are protected against this vulnerability by Digital Vaccine protection filter ID ['13507']. For further product information on the TippingPoint IPS: http://www.tippingpoint.com
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Apple Safari. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of isindex elements. The issue lies in setting attributes to invalid values. By manipulating a document's elements an attacker can force a dangling pointer to be reused after it has been freed. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Apple has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6162
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2014-01-30 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2014-04-03 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	ant4g0nist (SegFault)

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