Use After Free Affecting gnome-session-debugsource package, versions <0:3.28.1-10.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.99% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-GNOMESESSIONDEBUGSOURCE-3307371
  • published3 Feb 2023
  • disclosed2 Mar 2020

Introduced: 2 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-10018  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 gnome-session-debugsource to version 0:3.28.1-10.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2020:4451.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gnome-session-debugsource package and not the gnome-session-debugsource package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

WebKitGTK through 2.26.4 and WPE WebKit through 2.26.4 (which are the versions right before 2.28.0) contains a memory corruption issue (use-after-free) that may lead to arbitrary code execution. This issue has been fixed in 2.28.0 with improved memory handling.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1