WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0.2, as used on iPhone OS before 3.1, iPhone OS before 3.1.1 for iPod touch, and other platforms; KHTML in kdelibs in KDE; QtWebKit (aka Qt toolkit); and possibly other products do not properly handle numeric character references, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted HTML document.
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Advisories
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DSA-1950-1 | New webkit packages fix several vulnerabilities |
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DSA-1988-1 | New qt4-x11 packages fix several vulnerabilities |
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USN-836-1 | WebKit vulnerabilities |
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USN-857-1 | Qt vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T05:20:35.334Z
Reserved: 2009-05-20T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2009-1725

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2009-07-09T17:30:00.420
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2009-1725


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