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Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package webkit2gtk  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-WEBKIT2GTK-1044257
  • published24 Nov 2020
  • disclosed16 Oct 2020
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Introduced: 16 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-9983  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream webkit2gtk package and not the webkit2gtk package as distributed by Ubuntu.

An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in Safari 14.0. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution.

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