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Apple Safari security update for CVE-2009-1709

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Apple Safari security update for CVE-2009-1709

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/10/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/05/2012
Modified
12/05/2016

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."

Solution(s)

  • apple-safari-upgrade-4_0
  • apple-safari-windows-uninstall

References

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