From CNET, “The code was first reported in January and exhausts the memory in Safari, which in turn will cause your iPhone or iPod Touch to freeze, or your desktop Safari to crash. “Given the nature of this issue,” said the BugTraq newsgroup vulnerability report, “remote code execution may also be possible, but this has not been confirmed.”"

At the time there was no patch available from Apple, nor has there been any comment.

Read more at CNET or visit the exploit page.

“UPDATE: It appears that this vulnerability was eliminated in the latest version of Safari for computers (v3.1), that came out several hours after this article was posted. Here’s to hoping that a firmware upgrade with a similar fix for iPhone’s Mobile Safari is coming soon.”

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