CVE-2010-1410

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2010-06-07
Bugzilla:
596452: CVE-2010-1410 WebKit: memory corruption vulnerability in handling of nested 'use' elements in SVG documents

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via an SVG document with nested use elements.

Find out more about CVE-2010-1410 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 webkitgtk Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of Apple Product Security for responsibly reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Aki Helin of OUSPG as the original reporter.

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