Palm Pre WebOS version <= 1.1 Floating Point Exception

I. Description

The Palm Pre WebOS version <= 1.1 suffers from a floating point exception vulnerability when
attempting to view a specially crafted web page. This vulnerability has been addressed in the latest
patch from Palm and all users are recommended to update to WebOS version 1.2+.

II. Impact

If a user views a malicious web page that contains specially crafted data, the "LunaSysMgr" process
will crash, causing the device to simulate a reboot. The bug itself is a floating point exception
that crashes the "LunaSysMgr" process and forces the device to restart the process, simulating a
reboot of the system. At the time of the discovery, the greatest risk to the system was a denial of
service condition.

The crash does not occur when viewing the malicious web page while in landscape mode.

III. Proof of Concept

The Palm Pre WebOS version <= 1.1 will crash upon opening a web page that contains 50,280 bytes of
data or greater and attempts to refresh the page. Upon viewing the malicious web page the
LunaSysMgr process will generate a floating point exception and simulate a system "reboot".

The following code will trigger the issue

"<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1">AAAAA…" using 50280 or more characters after the refresh.

IV. About

This vulnerability was discovered by Townsend Ladd Harris <PalmPreHacker [a t] gmail.com>

Vulnerability details will be posted at:
http://tlhsecurity.blogspot.com/2009/10/palm-pre-webos-version-11-floating.html