Bug 2271718 (CVE-2023-42950)
| Summary: | CVE-2023-42950 webkit: heap use-after-free may lead to arbitrary code execution | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | TEJ RATHI <trathi> |
| 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: | WebKitGTK 2.44.0 | Doc Type: | --- |
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A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in WebKit. Exploiting this flaw involves processing maliciously crafted web content, which may result in arbitrary code execution.
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 2271720, 2274441 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 2270297 | ||
Created webkitgtk tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2271720] Created webkit2gtk4.0 tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-rawhide [bug 2274441] This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2024:9144 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9144 |
Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. WebKit Bugzilla: 263682 Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.44.0. WebKitGTK Advisory URL: https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2024-0002.html