Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package webkit2gtk  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2010-WEBKIT2GTK-1032626
  • published19 Jul 2018
  • disclosed19 Jul 2018

Introduced: 19 Jul 2018

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.

NVD Description

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

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.