Bug 2271453 (CVE-2023-41983)

Summary: CVE-2023-41983 webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to a denial of service
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Marco Benatto <mbenatto>
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A vulnerability in WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit may result in a denial-of-service when processing web content. This issue arises from improper memory handling, which could be exploited by attackers to crash the affected systems.
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Description Marco Benatto 2024-03-25 17:24:07 UTC
Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service. The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

Comment 1 Marco Benatto 2024-03-25 17:24:24 UTC
Created webkitgtk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2271454]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2024-04-30 09:34:54 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 09:25:38 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