CVE-2005-4504

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-12-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The khtml::RenderTableSection::ensureRows function in KHTMLParser in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.3 and earlier, as used by Safari and TextEdit, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via HTML files with a large ROWSPAN attribute in a TD tag.

Affected products

macOS: 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.1 (+28)
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.0, 10.1, 10.1.1, 10.1.2, 10.1.3, 10.1.4 (+24)
Apple Safari: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3 (+4)
Apple Textedit: through 1.4

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382
http://docs.info.apple.com/jarticle.html?artnum=303382-en
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18220
http://secunia.com/advisories/19064
http://security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x22-advisory.txt
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/351217
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16045
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16907
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-062A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3058
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0791

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