CVE-2008-3950: Apple iPhone

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Off-by-one error in the _web_drawInRect:withFont:ellipsis:alignment:measureOnly function in WebKit in Safari in Apple iPhone 1.1.4 and 2.0 and iPod touch 1.1.4 and 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a JavaScript alert call with an argument that lacks breakable characters and has a length that is a multiple of the memory page size, leading to an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone
• Apple Ipod Touch
• Apple Safari: any version

Published 2008-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.