CVE-2009-1690

high

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Google Chrome 1.0.154.53, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) by setting an unspecified property of an HTML tag that causes child elements to be freed and later accessed when an HTML error occurs, related to "recursion in certain DOM event handlers."

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01200.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01199.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01196.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01177.html

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11009

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-857-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-836-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-822-1

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:330

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1950

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613

http://securitytracker.com/id?1022345

http://secunia.com/advisories/43068

http://secunia.com/advisories/37746

http://secunia.com/advisories/36790

http://secunia.com/advisories/36062

http://secunia.com/advisories/36057

http://secunia.com/advisories/35379

http://osvdb.org/54990

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=803

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-06-10

Updated: 2021-05-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High