Bug 2044542 (CVE-2021-30953) - CVE-2021-30953 webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Summary: CVE-2021-30953 webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-30953
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2044543 2046642 2046643
Blocks: 2040333
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-01-24 18:13 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2022-05-17 09:45 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: webkitgtk 2.32.4
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A flaw was found in webkitgtk. The vulnerability occurs due to improper bounds checking, which can lead to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. An attacker with network access could pass specially crafted web content files causing an application to halt, crash, or may lead to arbitrary code execution.
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Last Closed: 2022-05-11 00:15:28 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:1777 0 None None None 2022-05-10 13:23:51 UTC

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-01-24 18:13:44 UTC 
A flaw was found in WebKitGTK. An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.

Reference:
https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2022-0001.html
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2022-01-24 18:13:56 UTC 
Created webkit2gtk3 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2044543]
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-10 13:23:48 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:1777 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1777
Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-05-11 00:15:26 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-30953
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