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SUSE: CVE-2017-1000121: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-1000121: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/01/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/21/2018
Modified
11/22/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18
  • suse-upgrade-libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37
  • suse-upgrade-libwebkit2gtk3-lang
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-javascriptcore-4_0
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-webkit2-4_0
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-webkit2webextension-4_0
  • suse-upgrade-webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles
  • suse-upgrade-webkit2gtk3-devel

References

  • CVE-2017-1000121

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