CVE-2009-1690 Information

Description

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.\

Reference

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=803 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/54990 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.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.oval3Adef3A11009 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