Secunia Security Advisory - Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple Safari, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks or potentially compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
Apple Safari Two WebKit Component Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35758
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35758/
DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple Safari, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks
or potentially compromise a user's system.
1) An input validation error in the WebKit component when handling
parent and top objects can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and
script code in context of another site.
2) An error in the WebKit component when handling numeric character
references can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted
web page.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.0.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Reported by the vendor.
2) The vendor credits Chris Evans.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3666
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