CVE-2008-0729

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Mobile Safari on Apple iPhone 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and device crash) via certain JavaScript code that constructs a long string and an array containing long string elements, possibly a related issue to CVE-2006-3677. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Apple Mobile Safari: all versions

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3630
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487607/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492225/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27442
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39998
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4978
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3630
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487607/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492225/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27442
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39998
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4978

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