| Name | CVE-2023-39928 |
| Description | A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the MediaRecorder API of Webkit WebKitGTK 2.40.5. A specially crafted web page can abuse this vulnerability to cause memory corruption and potentially arbitrary code execution. A user would need to to visit a malicious webpage to trigger this vulnerability. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-5527-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| webkit2gtk (PTS) | buster | 2.36.4-1~deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 2.38.6-0+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 2.42.2-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2.42.5-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.42.2-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 2.42.5-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 2.42.5-1 | fixed |
| sid | 2.44.1-1 | fixed |
| wpewebkit (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 2.38.6-1~deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 2.38.6-1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 2.42.5-1 | fixed |
| sid | 2.44.1-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - webkit2gtk <end-of-life> (EOL in buster LTS)
[bookworm] - wpewebkit <ignored> (wpewebkit not covered by security support in Bookworm)
[bullseye] - wpewebkit <ignored> (wpewebkit >= 2.40 can no longer be sensibly backported)
https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2023-0009.html