National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1709
Original release date:06/10/2009
Last revised:07/15/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2009-06-08-1
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-09-034/
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1522
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 35334
External Source: BID
Name: 35260
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:1130
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022345
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35576
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35379
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 55013