CVE-2009-1725

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    CVE-2009-1725

    Published: 9 Jul 2009Last Modified: 4 Jun 2024

    Summary:

    Details: WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0.2, as used on iPhone OS before 3.1, iPhone OS before 3.1.1 for iPod touch, and other platforms; KHTML in kdelibs in KDE; QtWebKit (aka Qt toolkit); and possibly other products do not properly handle numeric character references, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document.

    References: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jul/msg00000.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/35758, http://secunia.com/advisories/36057, http://secunia.com/advisories/36062, http://secunia.com/advisories/36347, http://secunia.com/advisories/36677, http://secunia.com/advisories/36790, http://secunia.com/advisories/37746, http://secunia.com/advisories/43068, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3666, http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1950, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:330, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-836-1, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-857-1, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1827, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35607, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513813, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00001.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html, http://osvdb.org/55739, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3860, http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002162, http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002163, http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002164, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022526, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5777, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00931.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00933.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01177.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01196.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01199.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01200.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: qt4-x11

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/qt4-x11?arch=source

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4:4.5.2-2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High