Description
WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0.2, as used on iPhone OS before 3.1, iPhone OS before 3.1.1 for iPod touch, and other platforms; KHTML in kdelibs in KDE; QtWebKit (aka Qt toolkit); and possibly other products do not properly handle numeric character references, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document.
Published: 2009-07-09
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: 12.2% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1950-1 New webkit packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1988-1 New qt4-x11 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-836-1 WebKit vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-857-1 Qt vulnerabilities
References
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http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Jul/msg00000.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://osvdb.org/55739 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/35758 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36057 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36062 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36347 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36677 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/36790 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/37746 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3666 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3860 cve-icon cve-icon
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002162 cve-icon cve-icon
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002163 cve-icon cve-icon
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1002164 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1950 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:330 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35607 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022526 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-836-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-857-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1827 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513813 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5777 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1725 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00931.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00933.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01177.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01196.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01199.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01200.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Apple Iphone Os Ipod Touch Safari
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:20:35.334Z

Reserved: 2009-05-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-1725

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-07-09T17:30:00.420

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-1725

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2009-07-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-1725 - Bugzilla

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