webkitgtk webkitgtk CVE-2019-8720 vulnerability in Webkitgtk and Other Products
Published on March 6, 2023

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A vulnerability was found in WebKit. The flaw is triggered when processing maliciously crafted web content that may lead to arbitrary code execution. Improved memory handling addresses the multiple memory corruption issues.

Vendor Advisory NVD

Known Exploited Vulnerability

This WebKitGTK Memory Corruption Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. WebKitGTK contains a memory corruption vulnerability which can allow an attacker to perform remote code execution.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 13, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2019-8720 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 2.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

What is a Buffer Overflow Vulnerability?

The software performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.

CVE-2019-8720 has been classified to as a Buffer Overflow vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2019-8720

You can be notified by stack.watch whenever vulnerabilities like CVE-2019-8720 are published in these products:

Webkitgtk
 
Wpewebkit Wpe Webkit
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Scientific Computing
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Power Little Endian
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Power Big Endian
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ibm Z Systems
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Update Services Sap Solutions
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ibm Z Systems Eus
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Power Little Endian Eus
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Power Little Endian Update Services Sap Solutions
 
Red Hat Codeready Linux Builder
 
Red Hat Codeready Linux Builder Eus
 
Red Hat Codeready Linux Builder Power Little Endian Eus
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Arm64 Eus
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Arm64
 
Red Hat Codeready Linux Builder Arm64 Eus
 
Red Hat Codeready Linux Builder Ibm Z Systems Eus
 

What versions are vulnerable to CVE-2019-8720?