CVE-2017-1000122

published 2017-11-01

CVE-2017-1000122: The UNIX IPC layer in WebKit, including WebKitGTK+ prior to 2.16.3, does not properly validate certain message metadata, allowing a compromised secondary…

Priority P4 24 medium 5.3 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A L

The UNIX IPC layer in WebKit, including WebKitGTK+ prior to 2.16.3, does not properly validate certain message metadata, allowing a compromised secondary process to cause a denial of service (release assertion) of the UI process. This vulnerability does not affect Apple products.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	webkit2gtk	< webkit2gtk 2.16.3-2 (bookworm)	webkit2gtk 2.16.3-2 (bookworm)
webkitgtk	webkitgtk	< 2.16.3	2.16.3

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 5.3 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 5.3 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 5.3 LOW

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