CVE-2009-1690

Vulnerability 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."

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References

• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=803
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.htmlPatchVendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.htmlPatchVendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
• http://osvdb.org/54990
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35379Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36057Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36062Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36790Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37746Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43068Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1022345Patch
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613PatchVendor Advisory
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639PatchVendor Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1950