iPhone vulnerability
Looks like I was wrong. From Apple's security mailing list:
Safari
CVE-ID: CVE-2007-3944
Available for: iPhone v1.0
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted web page may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: Heap buffer overflows exist in the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) library used by the JavaScript engine in Safari. By enticing a user to visit a maliciously crafted web page, an attacker may trigger the issues, which may lead to arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issues by performing additional validation of JavaScript regular expressions. Credit to Charlie Miller and Jake Honoroff of Independent Security Evaluators for reporting these issues.
The issue was patched in yesterday's iPhone firmware update.
I still wonder how they found they could execute arbitrary code without anyone having a working toolchain to use to *generate* that code.
Safari
CVE-ID: CVE-2007-3944
Available for: iPhone v1.0
Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted web page may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: Heap buffer overflows exist in the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) library used by the JavaScript engine in Safari. By enticing a user to visit a maliciously crafted web page, an attacker may trigger the issues, which may lead to arbitrary code execution. This update addresses the issues by performing additional validation of JavaScript regular expressions. Credit to Charlie Miller and Jake Honoroff of Independent Security Evaluators for reporting these issues.
The issue was patched in yesterday's iPhone firmware update.
I still wonder how they found they could execute arbitrary code without anyone having a working toolchain to use to *generate* that code.