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Bug#544903: marked as done (CVE-2009-2195 WebKit: buffer overflow in floating point numbers parsing)

Your message dated Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:55:12 +0100
with message-id <200912071255.12302.fabo@debian.org>
and subject line CVE-2009-2195 WebKit: buffer overflow in floating point numbers parsing
has caused the Debian Bug report #544903,
regarding CVE-2009-2195 WebKit: buffer overflow in floating point numbers parsing
to be marked as done.

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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

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