[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#544903: CVE-2009-2195 WebKit: buffer overflow in floating point numbers parsing



Source: qt4-x11
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for qt4-x11.

CVE-2009-2195[0]:
| 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.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

A patch for this is 
availablehttp://trac.webkit.org/changeset/45696, looking at 
the code in qt4-x11 you probably need to port it :/

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2195
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2009-2195

-- 
Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - nion@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0xA0A0AAAA
For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.

Attachment: pgpt_KWMM40OP.pgp
Description: PGP signature


Reply to: