Race condition in Apple Safari - CVE-2018-4266

 

Race condition in Apple Safari - CVE-2018-4266

Published: July 11, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13805
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-4266
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to race condition when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and cause the service to crash.


Affected software

Apple Safari
Gentoo Linux
watchOS
Apple iOS
tvOS
Opensuse
webkit2gtk (Alpine package)
iCloud for Windows
iTunes

How to mitigate CVE-2018-4266

Update to version 11.1.2.

Apple Safari - update to 11.1.2
webkit2gtk (Alpine package) - update to 2.20.4-r0

External References

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