Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gnome-shell-extension-workspace-indicator  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GNOMESHELLEXTENSIONWORKSPACEINDICATOR-1578231
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed23 Nov 2020

Introduced: 23 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-13584  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnome-shell-extension-workspace-indicator package and not the gnome-shell-extension-workspace-indicator package as distributed by RHEL.

An exploitable use-after-free vulnerability exists in WebKitGTK browser version 2.30.1 x64. A specially crafted HTML web page can cause a use-after-free condition, resulting in a remote code execution. The victim needs to visit a malicious web site to trigger this vulnerability.