CVE-2009-0744 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Apple Safari 4 Beta build 528.16. Remote attackers can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and application crash by crafting a malicious "feeds:" URI containing specific special characters followed by an ampersand. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, requiring no authentication, but only results in a partial availability impact (application crash). While not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:4.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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