CVE-2009-1701

Publication date 10 June 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

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Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
qt4-x11 11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic Ignored end of life
9.04 jaunty Ignored end of life
8.10 intrepid Ignored end of life, was needed
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected
webkit 11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic
Not affected
9.04 jaunty Ignored end of life
8.10 intrepid Ignored end of life, was needed
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release

Notes

jdstrand

webkit is a fork of khtml from kdelibs. kdelibs5 is farther from it, while qt4-x11 attempts to unify khtml and webkit

mdeslaur

code does not seem present in kde4libs webkit code is different in hardy, need to check reproducer as of 2009-09-18, not fixed in upstream qt:4.5 tree

Patch details

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Package Patch details
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