vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-9643: webkit2gtk Several vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 1, 2017
Added
Aug 30, 2017
Modified
Dec 4, 2019

Description

The regex code in Webkit 2.4.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) as demonstrated in a large number of ($ (open parenthesis and dollar) followed by {-2,16} and a large number of +) (plus close parenthesis).

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-webkit2gtk
Title
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