CVE-2009-1698

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-06-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

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 initialize a pointer during handling of a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attr function call with a large numerical argument, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document.

Affected products

Apple Iphone Os: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 (+11)
Apple Ipod Touch: all versions
Apple Safari: through 3.2.2; 2.0, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.3-417.8 (+22)

References

http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/05/advisory-apple-safari-remote-code.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jun/msg00005.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/jun/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://osvdb.org/55006
http://secunia.com/advisories/35379
http://secunia.com/advisories/35588
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

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