CVE-2009-5098 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The LunaSysMgr process in Palm Pre WebOS 1.1 and earlier, when not viewing web pages in landscape mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a web page containing a long string following a refresh tag, which triggers a floating point exception.

Published: 2011-09-13

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: 18.2% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:hp:palm_pre_webos::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:hp:palm_pre_webos:1.0.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:hp:palm_pre_webos:1.0.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:hp:palm_pre_webos:1.0.4:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.18178.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://kb.palm.com/wps/portal/kb/na/pre/p100eww/sprint/solutions/article/50607_en.html#12
http://secunia.com/advisories/36936
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8373
http://tlhsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/10/palm-pre-webos-version-11-floating.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507126/100/0/threaded

History

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Subscriptions

Hp Palm Pre Webos

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2011-09-13T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T07:24:54.083Z

Reserved: 2011-09-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-5098

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-09-13T19:59:25.440

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2009-5098

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-399

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