Bug 2270143 (CVE-2023-40414)
| Summary: | CVE-2023-40414 webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Marco Benatto <mbenatto> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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A vulnerability in WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a target system. The issue arises from a use-after-free flaw in memory management when processing web content. This flaw can potentially give attackers the ability to take control of affected systems.
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| Bug Depends On: | 2270144 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 2269740 | ||
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Description
Marco Benatto
2024-03-18 15:58:22 UTC
Created webkitgtk tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2270144] 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 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 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support Via RHSA-2025:10364 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:10364 |