CVE-2009-2419: Apple Safari

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 9.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the servePendingRequests function in WebCore in WebKit in Apple Safari 4.0 and 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document that references a zero-length .js file and the JavaScript reload function. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

• Apple Safari: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only

Published 2009-07-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.