A flaw in the CSS loader of the WebKit engine could crash programs and potentially allows execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2008-3632).

It was discovered that WebKit did not properly handle Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) import statements. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious website, an attacker could cause a browser crash and possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The version of Safari installed on the remote Windows host is earlier than 4.0.  It therefore is potentially affected by numerous issues in the following components :

  - CFNetwork
  - CoreGraphics
  - ImageIO
  - International Components for Unicode
  - libxml
  - Safari
  - Safari Windows Installer
  - WebKit

A flaw in the CSS loader of the WebKit engine could crash programs and potentially allows execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2008-3632).

This update also fixes unrelated problems with printing.

The version of Apple Safari installed on the remote Mac OS X host is earlier than 4.0.  As such, it is potentially affected by numerous issues in the following components :

  - CFNetwork
  - libxml
  - Safari
  - WebKit

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
39903	openSUSE Security Update : WebKitGtk (WebKitGtk-212)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/21/2009	1/14/2021	high
37177	Ubuntu 8.10 : webkit vulnerability (USN-676-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	4/23/2009	1/19/2021	high
39339	Safari < 4.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	6/9/2009	7/27/2018	high
40021	openSUSE Security Update : libQtWebKit-devel (libQtWebKit-devel-216)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	7/21/2009	1/14/2021	high
39338	Mac OS X : Apple Safari < 4.0	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	6/9/2009	7/14/2018	high

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