CVE-2009-2416 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2009-2416?

CVE-2009-2416 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Apple Iphone Os, published on 11 Aug 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in libxml2 2.5.10, 2.6.16, 2.6.26, 2.6.27, and 2.6.32, and libxml 1.8.17, allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted (1) Notation or (2) Enumeration attribute types in an XML file, as demonstrated by the Codenomicon XML fuzzing framework.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2416?

It affects 19 products.

Products include Apple Iphone Os, Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server, Apple Safari, Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux and 13 more.

How do I fix CVE-2009-2416?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2009-2416 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-2416 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apple Iphone Os

• CVE-2021-30666 Apple iOS WebKit Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2021-30761 Apple iOS WebKit Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2021-30762 Apple iOS WebKit Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-4657 Apple iOS Webkit Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-7286 Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Apple Iphone Os vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2009-2416, GHSA-2vw2-h5mp-gfhw.