Bug 1816684 (CVE-2019-8835)

Summary: CVE-2019-8835 webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: erack, gnome-sig, mcatanza, tpopela
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: webkitgtk 2.26.3 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1816685, 1821111, 1821112, 1821113    
Bug Blocks: 1816689    

Description Pedro Sampaio 2020-03-24 14:24:13 UTC
A flaw was found in WebKitGTK before 2.26.3. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

References:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/23/2
https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2020-0001.html

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2020-03-24 14:24:46 UTC
Created webkit2gtk3 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1816685]

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2020-04-06 04:18:50 UTC
External References:

https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2020-0001.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2020-09-29 20:46:03 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:4035 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4035

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-09-29 22:00:20 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-8835

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 01:05:02 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:4451 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4451