Bug 2140504 (CVE-2022-42824)

Summary:	CVE-2022-42824 webkitgtk: sensitive information disclosure issue
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sandipan Roy <saroy>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mcatanza, tpopela
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	WebKitGTK 2.38.2	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A vulnerability was found in webkitgtk, where a type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling. By this security flaw processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2023-05-16 20:52:34 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	2140515, 2140516, 2140517, 2140518, 2142546
Bug Blocks:	2140185

Description Sandipan Roy 2022-11-07 04:22:22 UTC

CVE-2022-42824
Versions affected: WebKitGTK before 2.38.2.
Credit to Abdulrahman Alqabandi of Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research, Ryan Shin of IAAI SecLab at Korea University, Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun) of DNSLab at Korea University.
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user information. Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2022-11-07 04:39:23 UTC

Created webkit2gtk3 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-35 [bug 2140516]
Affects: fedora-36 [bug 2140517]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-09 07:22:48 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2023:2256 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2256

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 08:18:03 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:2834 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2834

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-05-16 20:52:32 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-2022-42824