CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-1000121

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-11-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

The UNIX IPC layer in WebKit, including WebKitGTK+ prior to 2.16.3, does not properly validate message size metadata, allowing a compromised secondary process to trigger an integer overflow and subsequent buffer overflow in the UI process. This vulnerability does not affect Apple products.

Affected configurations

• webkitgtk webkitgtk\+ (< 2.16.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (3)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
  • CWE-680 Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow weakness

References