Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2009-1690 in the critical feed json

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 throu…

published 2009-06-10 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-1685

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.6%
EPSS 6.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1, Google Chrome 1.0.154.53, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) by setting an unspecified property of an HTML tag that causes child elements to be freed and later accessed when an HTML error occurs, related to "recursion in certain DOM event handlers."

Patch / fix

  • kdelibs RHEL 4 6:3.3.1-14.el4
  • kdelibs RHEL 5 6:3.5.4-22.el5_3
  • kdelibs-apidocs RHEL 5 6:3.5.4-22.el5_3

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:1127

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-2009-1690 updated cvss 6.8

kdelibs: KHTML Incorrect handling <head> element content once the <head> element was removed (DoS, ACE)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) kdelibs 3.5.4-22.el5_3, kdelibs-apidocs 3.5.4-22.el5_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 kdelibs 3.3.1-14.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) kdelibs 3.5.4-22.el5_3, kdelibs-apidocs 3.5.4-22.el5_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 kdelibs 3.3.1-14.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) kdelibs 3.5.4-22.el5_3, kdelibs-apidocs 3.5.4-22.el5_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 kdelibs 3.3.1-14.el4
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 kdelibs 3.3.1-14.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1127

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

6.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35260 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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-399 Resource Management Errors
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.