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Ubuntu: USN-3743-1 (CVE-2018-12911): WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3743-1 (CVE-2018-12911): WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/19/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
08/23/2018
Modified
03/09/2021

Description

WebKitGTK+ 2.20.3 has an off-by-one error, with a resultant out-of-bounds write, in the get_simple_globs functions in ThirdParty/xdgmime/src/xdgmimecache.c and ThirdParty/xdgmime/src/xdgmimeglob.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libjavascriptcoregtk-4-0-18
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libwebkit2gtk-4-0-37

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