CVE-2009-5098

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2011-09-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The LunaSysMgr process in Palm Pre WebOS 1.1 and earlier, when not viewing web pages in landscape mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a web page containing a long string following a refresh tag, which triggers a floating point exception.

Affected products

HP Palm Pre Webos: through 1.1.0; 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4

References

http://kb.palm.com/wps/portal/kb/na/pre/p100eww/sprint/solutions/article/50607_en.html#12
http://secunia.com/advisories/36936
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8373
http://tlhsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/10/palm-pre-webos-version-11-floating.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507126/100/0/threaded
http://kb.palm.com/wps/portal/kb/na/pre/p100eww/sprint/solutions/article/50607_en.html#12
http://secunia.com/advisories/36936
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8373
http://tlhsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/10/palm-pre-webos-version-11-floating.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507126/100/0/threaded

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