| Name | CVE-2009-1725 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1950-1, DSA-1988-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 538346, 538347 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| kde4libs (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4:4.14.2-5+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4:4.14.26-2+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster | 4:4.14.38-3 | fixed | |
| qt4-x11 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u5 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4:4.8.7+dfsg-11+deb9u3 | fixed | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4:4.8.7+dfsg-11+deb9u4 | fixed | |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4:4.8.7+dfsg-18+deb10u2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kde4libs | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | |||
| kdelibs | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | |||
| qt4-x11 | source | etch | (not affected) | |||
| qt4-x11 | source | lenny | 4.4.3-1+lenny1 | DSA-1988-1 | ||
| qt4-x11 | source | (unstable) | 4:4.5.2-2 | medium | 538347 | |
| webkit | source | lenny | 1.0.1-4+lenny2 | DSA-1950-1 | ||
| webkit | source | (unstable) | 1.1.13-1 | medium | 538346 |
[etch] - qt4-x11 <not-affected> (QTWebkit was introduced in 4.4)
- kdelibs <not-affected> (medium; bug #538350)
- kde4libs <not-affected> (medium; bug #538349)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513813#c18
patch http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/44799/
PoC http://web.archive.org/web/20110813092643/https://cevans-app.appspot.com/static/webkitentityoffbyone.html