The JavaScript garbage collector 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 does not properly handle allocation failures, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document that triggers write access to an "offset of a NULL pointer."
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1867-1 New kdelibs packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1868-1 New kde4libs packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1950-1 New webkit packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1988-1 New qt4-x11 packages fix several vulnerabilities
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-1682 The JavaScript garbage collector 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 does not properly handle allocation failures, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document that triggers write access to an "offset of a NULL pointer."
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-822-1 KDE-Libs vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-836-1 WebKit vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-857-1 Qt vulnerabilities
Fixes

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References
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http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://osvdb.org/54985 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35379 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36057 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36062 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36790 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37746 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022345 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1950 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:330 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35260 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35309 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-822-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-836-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-857-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1687 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10260 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1687 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01177.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01196.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01199.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01200.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:20:35.302Z

Reserved: 2009-05-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-1687

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-06-10T14:30:00.327

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-1687

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2009-06-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-1687 - Bugzilla

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