CVE-2023-28205: About the security content of Safari 16.4.1

The vulnerability is among a rapidly growing number of zero-day bugs that major browser vendors have reported recently.

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202305-32 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in WebkitGTK+, the worst of which could result in arbitrary code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 2.40.1 are affected.

Apple on Thursday rolled out security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and the Safari web browser to address three new zero-day flaws that it said are being actively exploited in the wild. The three security shortcomings are listed below - CVE-2023-32409 - A WebKit flaw that could be exploited by a malicious actor to break out of the Web Content sandbox. It was addressed with

Ubuntu Security Notice 6061-1 - Several security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5397-1 - Vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine. Luan Herrera discovered that an HTML document may be able to render iframes with sensitive user information. P1umer and Q1IQ discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. An anonymous researcher discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may bypass Same Origin Policy. An anonymous researcher discovered that a website may be able to track sensitive user information. Clement Lecigne and Donncha O Cearbhaill discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1919-01 - WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform. Issues addressed include code execution and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1918-01 - WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform. Issues addressed include code execution and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

An update for webkit2gtk3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2023-28205: A flaw was found in the webkitgtk package. An improper input validation issue may lead to a use-after-free vulnerability. This vulnerability allows attackers with network access to pass specially crafted web content files, causing Denial of Service or Arbitrary Code Execution.

Microsoft zero-days, dark web forum takedowns and Pentagon leaks on Discord in this week's newsletter.

Microsoft today released software updates to plug 100 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including a zero-day vulnerability that is already being used in active attacks. Not to be outdone, Apple has released a set of important updates addressing two zero-day vulnerabilities that are being used to attack iPhones, iPads and Macs.

Apple Security Advisory 2023-04-10-1 - iOS 15.7.5 and iPadOS 15.7.5 addresses code execution, out of bounds write, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Apple Security Advisory 2023-04-07-3 - Safari 16.4.1 addresses code execution and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Apple Security Advisory 2023-04-07-2 - macOS Ventura 13.3.1 addresses code execution, out of bounds write, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Apple Security Advisory 2023-04-07-1 - iOS 16.4.1 and iPadOS 16.4.1 addresses code execution, out of bounds write, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.

Categories: Apple Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: iOS 16.4.1 Tags: iPadOS 16.4.1 Tags: macOS 13.3.1 Tags: CVE-2023-28206 Tags: CVE-2023-28205 Tags: use-after-free Tags: out-of-bounds write Tags: IOSurfaceAccelerator Apple has released iOS 16.4.1, iPadOS 16.4.1, and macOS 13.3.1 for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, respectively, and our advice is to install them as soon as possible. (Read more...) The post Apple releases emergency updates for two known-to-be-exploited vulnerabilities appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Unpatched Macs, iPhones, and iPads open to browser takeover and system kernel-level malicious code execution, Apple warns.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. This includes three high-severity flaws in the Veritas Backup Exec Agent software (CVE-2021-27876, CVE-2021-27877, and CVE-2021-27878) that could lead to the execution of privileged commands

Apple on Friday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari web browser to address a pair of zero-day flaws that are being exploited in the wild. The two vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2023-28205 - A use after free issue in WebKit that could lead to arbitrary code execution when processing specially crafted web content. CVE-2023-28206 - An out-of-bounds write issue in