CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-39928
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-10-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the MediaRecorder API of Webkit WebKitGTK 2.40.5. A specially crafted web page can abuse this vulnerability to cause memory corruption and potentially arbitrary code execution. A user would need to to visit a malicious webpage to trigger this vulnerability.
Affected configurations
• webkitgtk webkitgtk 2.40.5
• debian debian linux 11.0
• debian debian linux 12.0
• fedoraproject fedora 37
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4EEMDC5TQAANFH5D77QM34ZTUKXPFGVL/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-33 security.gentoo.org
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1831 Third Party Advisory
- https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2023-0009.html Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5527 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4EEMDC5TQAANFH5D77QM34ZTUKXPFGVL/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-33 security.gentoo.org
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1831 Third Party Advisory
- https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2023-0009.html Vendor Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5527 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1831 www.talosintelligence.com