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critical 9.3

CVE-2009-2195 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (appl…

published 2009-08-12 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-2191

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.3%
EPSS 13.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted floating-point numbers.

Patch / fix

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-2009-2195 updated

WebKit: buffer overflow in floating point numbers parsing

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-33164)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

13.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-33164 WebKit - Floating Point Number Remote Buffer Overflow remote, 2009-08-11

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-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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