CVE-2009-1690

Publication date 10 June 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Use-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."

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
kde4libs 11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic
Not affected
9.04 jaunty
Fixed 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu5.1
8.10 intrepid
Fixed 4:4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.2
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release
kdelibs 11.04 natty
Fixed 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu5
10.10 maverick
Fixed 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu5
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu5
9.10 karmic
Fixed 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu5
9.04 jaunty
Fixed 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-1ubuntu8.1
8.10 intrepid
Fixed 4:3.5.10-0ubuntu6.1
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 4:3.5.10-0ubuntu1~hardy1.2
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life
qt4-x11 11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic
Not affected
9.04 jaunty
Fixed 4.5.0-0ubuntu4.3
8.10 intrepid
Fixed 4.4.3-0ubuntu1.4
8.04 LTS hardy
Not affected
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected
webkit 11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic
Not affected
9.04 jaunty
Fixed 1.0.1-4ubuntu0.1
8.10 intrepid
Fixed 1.0.1-2ubuntu0.2
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release

Notes

jdstrand

webkit is a fork of khtml from kdelibs. kdelibs5 is farther from it, while qt4-x11 attempts to unify khtml and webkit

mdeslaur

PoC: http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/LayoutTests/fast/parser/head-content-after-head-removal.html?format=txt (need to add the <html> tags)

Patch details

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Package Patch details
kde4libs
kdelibs
webkit

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-822-1
    • KDE-Libs vulnerabilities
    • 24 August 2009
    • USN-836-1
    • WebKit vulnerabilities
    • 23 September 2009
    • USN-857-1
    • Qt vulnerabilities
    • 10 November 2009

Other references