CVE-2009-1687 Information

Description

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.\

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html http://osvdb.org/54985 http://secunia.com/advisories/35379 http://secunia.com/advisories/36057 http://secunia.com/advisories/36062 http://secunia.com/advisories/36790 http://secunia.com/advisories/37746 http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 http://securitytracker.com/id?1022345 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1950 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:330 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35260 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35309 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-822-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-836-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-857-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1522 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10260 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01177.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01196.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01199.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01200.html