CVE-2009-1709 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2009-1709

Use-after-free vulnerability in the garbage-collection implementation in WebCore in WebKit...

Vulnerability Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the garbage-collection implementation in WebCore in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap corruption and application crash) via an SVG animation element, related to SVG set objects, SVG marker elements, the targetElement attribute, and unspecified "caches."

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

safari
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0.3, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 2.0, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 3.0, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.3, 3.0.1, 3.2, 3.2.2

Timeline

Official Publish: June 10th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.