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CVE-2008-5821

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-01-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: 3.2

References

• http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/safari_webkit_ml.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33080
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47724
• http://jbrownsec.blogspot.com/2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.org/0812-exploits/safari_webkit_ml.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33080
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47724

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