CVE-2010-1770

NameCVE-2010-1770
DescriptionWebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, Apple Safari before 4.1 on Mac OS X 10.4, and Google Chrome before 5.0.375.70 does not properly handle a transformation of a text node that has the IBM1147 character set, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document containing a BR element, related to a "type checking issue."
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
chromium-browsersource(unstable)5.0.375.70~r48679-1
webkitsource(unstable)1.2.2-1

Notes

[lenny] - webkit <no-dsa> (Unmaintained in Lenny, only affects fringe apps)
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38626
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/59795

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