CVE-2018-11646 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package webkit2gtk (opens in a new tab)
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- published1 Jun 2018
- disclosed1 Jun 2018
Introduced: 1 Jun 2018
CVE-2018-11646 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream webkit2gtk package and not the webkit2gtk package as distributed by Ubuntu.
webkitFaviconDatabaseSetIconForPageURL and webkitFaviconDatabaseSetIconURLForPageURL in UIProcess/API/glib/WebKitFaviconDatabase.cpp in WebKit, as used in WebKitGTK+ through 2.21.3, mishandle an unset pageURL, leading to an application crash.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-11646
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-11646
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44842/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44876/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201808-04
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186164
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795740
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44876