Bug 596498 (CVE-2010-1772)

Summary:	CVE-2010-1772 WebKit: use-after-free vulnerability in handling of geolocation events
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jgrulich, jreznik, security-response-team, stransky, than
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	538236, 606304
Bug Blocks:	806808

Description Vincent Danen 2010-05-26 20:10:12 UTC

A use after free issue exists in WebKit's handling of geolocation events. Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. This issue is addressed through improved handing of geolocation events.

References:

Bugzilla: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39388
Trac: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/59859

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of Apple Product Security for responsibly reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Justin Schuh as the original reporter.

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2010-05-28 21:06:28 UTC

Upstream indicates this is a regression probably caused here (via https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37815#c60):

"Reverted r59693 for reason:

Broke GTK Release

Committed r59727: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/59727>"

It looks like webkitgtk 1.2.0 is using r56916 based on the ChangeLog entries.  If that is the case, then this would not affect webkitgtk (as we provide it) at all.

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2010-05-28 21:08:29 UTC

Geolocation is not supported by Konqueror.

Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2010-06-28 17:39:08 UTC

This is being made public now, we've been given the go-ahead from upstream to do so.

Comment 6 Vincent Danen 2010-06-28 17:49:03 UTC

Created webkitgtk tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 606304]

Comment 7 Vincent Danen 2010-06-28 17:49:05 UTC

Created qt tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 538236]

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-07-13 07:39:04 UTC

qt-4.6.3-8.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2010-07-13 07:42:44 UTC

qt-4.6.3-8.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.