Bug 1214253 (CVE-2023-38597)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2023-38597: webkitgtk: processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Product: [Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents Reporter: Stoyan Manolov <stoyan.manolov>
Component: IncidentsAssignee: Dirk Mueller <dmueller>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: brahmajit.das, dmueller, security-team, stoyan.manolov
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/373537/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2023-38597:8.8:(AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
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Description Stoyan Manolov 2023-08-14 11:47:49 UTC
CVE-2023-38597

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK
web engine:

CVE-2023-38133
YeongHyeon Choi discovered that processing web content may
    disclose sensitive information.
CVE-2023-38572
Narendra Bhati discovered that a website may be able to bypass the
    Same Origin Policy.
CVE-2023-38592
Narendra Bhati, Valentino Dalla Valle, Pedro Bernardo, Marco
    Squarcina, and Lorenzo Veronese discovered that processing web
    content may lead to arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2023-38594
Yuhao Hu discovered that processing web content may lead to
    arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2023-38595
An anonymous researcher, Jiming Wang, and Jikai Ren discovered
    that processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2023-38597
Junsung Lee discovered that processing web content may lead to
    arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2023-38599
Hritvik Taneja, Jason Kim, Jie Jeff Xu, Stephan van Schaik, Daniel
    Genkin, and Yuval Yarom discovered that a website may be able to
    track sensitive user information.
CVE-2023-38600
An anonymous researcher discovered that processing web content may
    lead to arbitrary code execution.
CVE-2023-38611
Francisco Alonso discovered that processing web content may lead
    to arbitrary code execution.

For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.40.5-1~deb11u1.
For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.40.5-1~deb12u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages.
For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to
its security tracker page at:
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https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/webkit2gtk

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-38597
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2231043
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38597
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-5468-1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/02/1
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KJ4DG5LHWG2INDOTPB7MO4JVJN6LKL3M/
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213841
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213842
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213843
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213847
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5468
Comment 4 Brahmajit Das 2023-10-26 17:27:41 UTC
Dirk,

I looked at the source of libQtWebKit4 from SLE12-SP2, the function createPageForSanitizingWebContent is not present there too. Would I be correct assuming that CVE-2023-38597 doesn't affect libQtWebKit4 from SLE12-SP2?
Comment 5 Dirk Mueller 2023-10-27 14:15:54 UTC
(In reply to Brahmajit Das from comment #4)

> correct assuming that CVE-2023-38597 doesn't affect libQtWebKit4 from
> SLE12-SP2?

Thats correct.