National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1725
Original release date:07/09/2009
Last revised:03/30/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
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
Official Statement from Red Hat (08/07/2009)
Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the kdelibs packages, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.
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External Source: BID
Name: 35607
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3666
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2009-07-08-1
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8020
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8046
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8049
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8039
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8802
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2009-8800
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513813
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2011-0212
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1827
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-857-1
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-836-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022526
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2009:330
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1950
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002164
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002163
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002162
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3860
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 43068
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 37746
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36790
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36677
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36347
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36062
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 36057
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35758
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5777
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 55739
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2011:002
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2009-09-09-1
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5777
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5