Use-after-free vulnerability in the garbage-collection implementation in WebCore in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0 allows remote…

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the garbage-collection implementation in WebCore in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap corruption and application crash) via an SVG animation element, related to SVG set objects, SVG marker elements, the targetElement attribute, and unspecified "caches."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

6.9% · top 5.9% 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 (18)

• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-034/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 43068 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2011-0212 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10162 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• RHSA-2009:1130 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 35576 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2009-1522 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 1022345 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 35334 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 55013 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 36461 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• USN-823-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_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
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• MDVSA-2010:182 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_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.