Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting webkitgtk package, versions [,2.50.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WEBKITGTK-14101848
  • published23 Nov 2025
  • disclosed20 Nov 2025
  • creditGoogle Big Sleep

Introduced: 20 Nov 2025

NewCVE-2025-43429  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade webkitgtk to version 2.50.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound via the normalize function in the StringPrototype component. An attacker can cause an unexpected process crash by processing maliciously crafted web content containing strings of length >= 1GB, which cause ICU buffer length calculations to overflow.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1