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.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1831 | third party advisory |
| https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2023-0009.html | vendor advisory |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5527 | third party advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4EEMDC5TQAANFH5D77QM34ZTUKXPFGVL/ | third party advisory mailing list |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-33 |