| Name | CVE-2024-27834 |
| Description | The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, tvOS 17.5, Safari 17.5, watchOS 10.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5. An attacker with arbitrary read and write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication. |
| 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-5695-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| webkit2gtk (PTS) | bullseye | 2.44.2-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2.46.3-1~deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.46.0-2~deb12u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 2.46.3-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.46.3-1 | fixed |
| wpewebkit (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 2.38.6-1~deb11u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 2.38.6-1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 2.46.3-1 | 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-2024-0003.html