Memory corruption in Apple Safari - CVE-2017-13866

 

Memory corruption in Apple Safari - CVE-2017-13866

Published: December 18, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9670
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-2017-13866
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 weakness exists due to boundary error when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can trick the victim into loading a specially crafted web content, trigger memory corruption in the WebKit component and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

Affected software

Apple Safari
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
webkit2gtk (Alpine package)
webkitgtk4
iCloud for Windows
iTunes

How to mitigate CVE-2017-13866

Update to version 11.0.2.

webkit2gtk (Alpine package) - update to 2.18.4-r0
webkitgtk4 - addressed in versions 2.18.4-1.fc26, 2.18.4-1.fc27

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