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medium 5.0

CVE-2008-5821 json

Memory leak in WebKit.dll in WebKit, as used by Apple Safari 3.2 on Windows Vista SP1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…

published 2009-01-02 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-5791

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.9%
EPSS 3.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
3
Exploit-DB

Summary

Memory leak in WebKit.dll in WebKit, as used by Apple Safari 3.2 on Windows Vista SP1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and browser crash) via a long ALINK attribute in a BODY element in an HTML document.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-32695)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

3.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-32695 Apple Safari 3.2 WebKit - 'alink' Property Memory Leak Remote Denial of Service (2) dos, 2009-01-01
  • EDB-32694 Apple Safari 3.2 WebKit - 'alink' Property Memory Leak Remote Denial of Service (1) dos, 2009-01-01
  • EDB-12408 Apple Safari 4.0.5 (531.22.7) - Denial of Service dos, 2010-04-26
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33080 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • packetstormsecurity.org http://packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/safari_webkit_ml.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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