RCE in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2009-0945
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.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.093 (95.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.093 · newest: 0.093 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X — versions 10.4.11, 10.5.0, 10.5.1
- Apple Mac OS X Server — versions 10.4.11, 10.5.0, 10.5.1
- Apple Safari — versions 0.8, 0.9, 1.0
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- Microsoft Windows Xp
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-822-1 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/35805 (third-party-advisory)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT3639
- secunia.com/advisories/43068 (third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01177.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1621 (vdb-entry)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/05/stable-update-bug-fix.html
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)