Denial of Service Vulnerability in Palm Pre WebOS 1.1 by Palm
CVE-2009-5098

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor: HP
Status: Palm Pre Webos
Vendor: CVE Published:; 13 September 2011

What is CVE-2009-5098?

A vulnerability has been identified in the LunaSysMgr process of Palm Pre WebOS 1.1 and earlier versions that can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This occurs when the device is not displaying web pages in landscape mode. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted web page containing a long string after a refresh tag, which triggers a floating point exception and leads to the crashing of the application.