CVE-2005-4504
highpriority · attend · 45EPSS 0.119 · 96 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
The khtml::RenderTableSection::ensureRows function in KHTMLParser in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.3 and earlier, as used by Safari and TextEdit, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via HTML files with a large ROWSPAN attribute in a TD tag.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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exploits (1)
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- EDB-26971Apple Mac OSX - KHTMLParser Remote Denial of Servicefunctional · exploit_db
affected products (76)
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also known as (2)
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sources
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references (26)
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- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303382enisa_euvd
- http://docs.info.apple.com/jarticle.html?artnum=303382-enenisa_euvd
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Mar/msg00000.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18220enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19064enisa_euvd
- http://security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x22-advisory.txtenisa_euvd
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/351217enisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16045enisa_euvd
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