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…

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."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

6.6% · top 6.1% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (28)

• USN-822-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 43068 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-8039 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• MDVSA-2009:330 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• ADV-2009-1621 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0212 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11009 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2009-06-08-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• 35260 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 20090608 Multiple Vendor WebKit Error Handling Use After Free Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-8046 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• ADV-2009-1522 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 37746 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1022345 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 36790 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2009-06-17-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• DSA-1950 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2011:002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• 35379 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 36062 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• USN-857-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 36057 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-8049 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-836-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 54990 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• FEDORA-2009-8020 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 05:20 UTC.