CVE-2006-1988

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-04-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The WebTextRenderer(WebInternal) _CG_drawRun:style:geometry: function in Apple Safari 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an HTML LI tag with a large VALUE attribute (list item number), which triggers a null dereference in QPainter::drawText, probably due to a failed memory allocation that uses the VALUE.

Affected products

Apple Safari: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19686
http://security-protocols.com/poc/sp-x26-2.html
http://www.osvdb.org/24823
http://www.security-protocols.com/sp-x26-advisory.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17634
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1452
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25946
http://secunia.com/advisories/19686
http://security-protocols.com/poc/sp-x26-2.html
http://www.osvdb.org/24823
http://www.security-protocols.com/sp-x26-advisory.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17634

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