Bug 2254327 (CVE-2023-42890)

Summary:	CVE-2023-42890 webkitgtk: processing malicious web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	TEJ RATHI <trathi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in WebKitGTK. This issue exists due to a boundary error when processing malicious HTML content in WebKit, which could result in memory corruption and arbitrary code execution on the target system.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2254470
Bug Blocks:	2254329

Description TEJ RATHI 2023-12-13 10:18:23 UTC

Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 259830

Reference:
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/6
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/Dec/7

Comment 2 Sandipan Roy 2023-12-14 05:34:02 UTC

Created webkitgtk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2254470]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 09:34:48 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:2126 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2126

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2024-05-22 09:25:26 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2024:2982 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2982