ASA-2019-00297 – WebKit: Multiple memory corruption

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Allele Security Alert

ASA-2019-00297

Identifier(s)

ASA-2019-00297, CVE-2019-8608, WSA-2019-0003

Title

Multiple memory corruption

Vendor(s)

The WebKitGTK Team
The WPE WebKit Team

Product(s)

WebKitGTK
WPE WebKit

Affected version(s)

WebKitGTK before 2.24.1
WPE WebKit before 2.24.1

Fixed version(s)

WebKitGTK version 2.24.1
WPE WebKit version 2.24.1

Proof of concept

Unknown

Description

Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling.

Technical details

Unknown

Credits

G. Geshev (MWR Labs)

Reference(s)

[webkit-gtk] WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2019-0003
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-gtk/2019-May/003502.html

WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2019-0003
https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2019-0003.html

WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2019-0003
https://wpewebkit.org/security/WSA-2019-0003.html

CVE-2019-8608
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8608

CVE-2019-8608
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8608

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Last modified: May 24, 2019

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