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CVE-2009-0945

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-05-13 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Array index error in the insertItemBefore method in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 3.2.3 and 4 Public Beta, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Google Chrome Stable before 1.0.154.65, and possibly other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a document with a SVGPathList data structure containing a negative index in the (1) SVGTransformList, (2) SVGStringList, (3) SVGNumberList, (4) SVGPathSegList, (5) SVGPointList, or (6) SVGLengthList SVGList object, which triggers memory corruption.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: through 3.2.2; 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0-beta, 1.0-beta2, 1.0.0 (+48)

References

• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=9019
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/05/stable-update-bug-fix.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00000.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00001.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35056
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35095
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35576
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35805

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