Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libwebkit2gtk3-lang package, versions <2.20.5-3.8.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBWEBKIT2GTK3LANG-2759515
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed19 Sept 2018

Introduced: 19 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-12911  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libwebkit2gtk3-lang to version 2.20.5-3.8.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libwebkit2gtk3-lang package and not the libwebkit2gtk3-lang package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.