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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2009-0945 json

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…

published 2009-05-13 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-0942

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.3%
EPSS 9.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • kdegraphics RHEL 5 PRODUCTIVITY, RHEL 5 7:3.5.4-13.el5_3

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:1130

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-0945 updated cvss 6.8

kdegraphics: KSVG NULL-pointer dereference in the SVGList interface implementation (ACE)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) kdegraphics 3.5.4-13.el5_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) kdegraphics 3.5.4-13.el5_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) kdegraphics 3.5.4-13.el5_3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1130

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

9.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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