National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1701

Overview

Use-after-free vulnerability in the JavaScript DOM implementation in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by destroying a document.body element that has an unspecified XML container with elements that support the dir attribute.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-033/

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-033/

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1522

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

External Source: CONFIRM

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

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022345

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1022345

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2009-06-08-1

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0212

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

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1621

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

External Source: BID

Name: 35325

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35325

External Source: BID

Name: 35260

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35260

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090608 ZDI-09-033: Apple WebKit dir Attribute Freeing Dangling Object Pointer Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/504172/100/0/threaded

External Source: CONFIRM

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

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

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43068

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43068

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 35379

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/35379

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 55008

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/55008

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2011:002

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

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2009-06-17-1

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