CVE-2009-1690

NameCVE-2009-1690
DescriptionUse-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Google Chrome 1.0.154.53, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) by setting an unspecified property of an HTML tag that causes child elements to be freed and later accessed when an HTML error occurs, related to "recursion in certain DOM event handlers."
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1867-1, DSA-1868-1, DSA-1950-1, DSA-1988-1
Debian Bugs534946, 534947, 534949, 534952

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
kde4libs (PTS)buster4:4.14.38-3fixed
qt4-x11 (PTS)buster4:4.8.7+dfsg-18+deb10u1fixed
buster (security)4:4.8.7+dfsg-18+deb10u2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
kde4libssourcelenny4:4.1.0-3+lenny1DSA-1868-1
kde4libssource(unstable)4:4.3.0-1medium534949
kdelibssourceetch4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch2DSA-1867-1
kdelibssourcelenny4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny2DSA-1867-1
kdelibssource(unstable)4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2.1medium534952
qt4-x11sourceetch(not affected)
qt4-x11sourcelenny4.4.3-1+lenny1DSA-1988-1
qt4-x11source(unstable)4:4.5.2-1medium534947
webkitsourcelenny1.0.1-4+lenny2DSA-1950-1
webkitsource(unstable)1.1.5-1medium534946

Notes

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/42532
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=983316
[etch] - qt4-x11 <not-affected> (QTWebkit was introduced in 4.4)

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