CVE-2009-2419

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-07-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the servePendingRequests function in WebCore in WebKit in Apple Safari 4.0 and 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document that references a zero-length .js file and the JavaScript reload function. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Apple Safari: 4.0, 4.0.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://marcell-dietl.de/index/adv_safari_4_x_js_reload_dos.php
http://secunia.com/advisories/33495
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/44519
http://www.osvdb.org/55587
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35555
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51533
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://marcell-dietl.de/index/adv_safari_4_x_js_reload_dos.php
http://secunia.com/advisories/33495

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