VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-4504

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability11.91%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-12-22
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

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.

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