CVE-2009-1701

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-06-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the JavaScript DOM implementation 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 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by destroying a document.body element that has an unspecified XML container with elements that support the dir attribute.

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://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/55008
http://secunia.com/advisories/35379
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022345
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3613
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3639
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504172/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35260
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35325

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