CVE-2010-3812

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-11-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in the Text::wholeText method in dom/Text.cpp in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 5.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1.3 on Mac OS X 10.4; webkitgtk before 1.2.6; and possibly other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving Text objects.

Affected products

Apple Safari: through 5.0.2; through 4.1.2; 5.0, 5.0.1, 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-beta2, 1.0.0 (+55)
Apple Webkit: all versions

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00003.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42314
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://secunia.com/advisories/43086
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4455
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4456
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/68705
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html

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