A vulnerability has been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to heap overflow error in the KHTMLParser that does not properly handle specially crafted HTML documents, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application (e.g. TextEdit or Safari) or compromise a vulnerable system via a malicious web page.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Tom Ferris
ChangeLog
2005-12-22 : Initial release
2006-03-01 : Updated Solution
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