Debian DSA-5527-1: Critical WebKit2GTK Memory Corruption Issues
debian
October 12, 2023
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine: CVE-2023-39928
Summary
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK
web engine:
CVE-2023-39928
Marcin Noga discovered that a specially crafted web page can abuse
a vulnerability in the MediaRecorder API to cause memory
corruption and potentially arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2023-41074
Junsung Lee and Me Li discovered that processing web content may
lead to arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2023-41993
Bill Marczak and Maddie Stone discovered that processing web
content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a
report that this issue may have been actively exploited.
For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.42.1-1~deb11u1.
For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.42.1-1~deb12u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages.
For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/sour...
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Package: webkit2gtk
CVE ID: CVE-2023-39928 CVE-2023-41074 CVE-2023-41993
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