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About the security content of Safari 5.1.7

Posted in Apple Mac OS

Summary

This document describes the security content of Safari 5.1.7.

Products Affected

Product Security, Safari 5.1 (OS X Lion), Safari 5.1 (Windows)

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Safari 5.1.7

  • WebKit

    Available for: Mac OS X v10.6.8, Mac OS X Server v10.6.8, OS X Lion v10.7.4, OS X Lion Server v10.7.4, Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to a cross-site scripting attack

    Description: Multiple cross-site scripting issues existed in WebKit.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2011-3046 : Sergey Glazunov working with Google's Pwnium contest

    CVE-2011-3056 : Sergey Glazunov

  • WebKit

    Available for: Mac OS X v10.6.8, Mac OS X Server v10.6.8, OS X Lion v10.7.4, OS X Lion Server v10.7.4, Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution

    Description: A memory corruption issue existed in WebKit.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2012-0672 : Adam Barth and Abhishek Arya of the Google Chrome Security Team

  • WebKit

    Available for: Mac OS X v10.6.8, Mac OS X Server v10.6.8, OS X Lion v10.7.4, OS X Lion Server v10.7.4, Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later

    Impact: A maliciously crafted website may be able to populate form inputs on another website with arbitrary values

    Description: A state tracking issue existed in WebKit's handling of forms.

    CVE-ID

    CVE-2012-0676 : Andreas