Buffer overflow in WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK+ - CVE-2020-3868

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Buffer overflow in WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK+ - CVE-2020-3868

Published: February 15, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU25382
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-3868
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing HTML content. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Affected software

WPE WebKit
WebKitGTK+
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Fedora
Service Telemetry Framework
webkit2gtk (Debian package)
webkit2gtk (Ubuntu package)
gnome-remote-desktop (Red Hat package)
pipewire0.2 (Red Hat package)
pipewire (Red Hat package)
webrtc-audio-processing (Red Hat package)
dleyna-renderer (Red Hat package)
LibRaw (Red Hat package)
vte291 (Red Hat package)
PackageKit (Red Hat package)
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk (Red Hat package)
xdg-desktop-portal (Red Hat package)
frei0r-plugins (Red Hat package)
potrace (Red Hat package)
gtk-doc (Red Hat package)
gvfs (Red Hat package)
tracker (Red Hat package)
net-libs/webkit-gtk
webkit2gtk3
webkit2gtk3 (Red Hat package)
libsoup (Red Hat package)
gtk3 (Red Hat package)
gnome-photos (Red Hat package)
gnome-session (Red Hat package)
nautilus (Red Hat package)
gnome-control-center (Red Hat package)
gnome-terminal (Red Hat package)
pygobject3 (Red Hat package)
gdm (Red Hat package)
gsettings-desktop-schemas (Red Hat package)
gnome-settings-daemon (Red Hat package)
gnome-shell-extensions (Red Hat package)
gnome-shell (Red Hat package)
mutter (Red Hat package)
Quay
OpenShift Data Foundation (formerly OpenShift Container Storage)

How to mitigate CVE-2020-3868

Install updates from vendor's website.

WPE WebKit - update to 2.26.4
WebKitGTK+ - update to 2.26.4
webkit2gtk (Debian package) - update to 2.26.4-1~deb10u1
webkit2gtk (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2.26.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, 2.26.4-0ubuntu0.19.10.1
Quay - update to 3.3.3
gnome-remote-desktop (Red Hat package) - update to 0.1.8-3.el8
pipewire0.2 (Red Hat package) - update to 0.2.7-6.el8
pipewire (Red Hat package) - update to 0.3.6-1.el8
webrtc-audio-processing (Red Hat package) - update to 0.3-9.el8
dleyna-renderer (Red Hat package) - update to 0.6.0-3.el8
LibRaw (Red Hat package) - update to 0.19.5-2.el8
vte291 (Red Hat package) - update to 0.52.4-2.el8
PackageKit (Red Hat package) - update to 1.1.12-6.el8
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk (Red Hat package) - update to 1.6.0-1.el8
xdg-desktop-portal (Red Hat package) - update to 1.6.0-2.el8
frei0r-plugins (Red Hat package) - update to 1.6.1-7.el8
potrace (Red Hat package) - update to 1.15-3.el8
gtk-doc (Red Hat package) - update to 1.28-2.el8
gvfs (Red Hat package) - update to 1.36.2-10.el8
tracker (Red Hat package) - update to 2.1.5-2.el8
net-libs/webkit-gtk - update to 2.26.4
webkit2gtk3 - addressed in versions 2.26.4-1.fc30, 2.26.4-1.fc31
webkit2gtk3 (Red Hat package) - update to 2.28.4-1.el8
libsoup (Red Hat package) - update to 2.62.3-2.el8
gtk3 (Red Hat package) - update to 3.22.30-6.el8
gnome-photos (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.1-3.el8
gnome-session (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.1-10.el8
nautilus (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.1-14.el8
gnome-control-center (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.2-22.el8
gnome-terminal (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.3-2.el8
pygobject3 (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.3-2.el8
gdm (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.3-34.el8
gsettings-desktop-schemas (Red Hat package) - update to 3.32.0-5.el8
gnome-settings-daemon (Red Hat package) - update to 3.32.0-11.el8
gnome-shell-extensions (Red Hat package) - update to 3.32.1-11.el8
gnome-shell (Red Hat package) - update to 3.32.2-20.el8
mutter (Red Hat package) - update to 3.32.2-48.el8

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