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title: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit Security Advisory WSA-2024-0004
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* Date Reported: **August 17, 2024**

* Advisory ID: **WSA-2024-0004**

* CVE identifiers: [CVE-2024-40776](#CVE-2024-40776), [CVE-2024-40779](#CVE-2024-40779), [CVE-2024-40780](#CVE-2024-40780), [CVE-2024-40782](#CVE-2024-40782), [CVE-2024-40785](#CVE-2024-40785), [CVE-2024-40789](#CVE-2024-40789), [CVE-2024-40794](#CVE-2024-40794), [CVE-2024-4558](#CVE-2024-4558)


Several vulnerabilities were discovered in WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit.

* <a name='CVE-2024-40776' href='https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-40776'>CVE-2024-40776</a>
* Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.44.3.
* Credit to Huang Xilin of Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab.
* Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process
crash. Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory
management.
* WebKit Bugzilla: 273176

* <a name='CVE-2024-40779' href='https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-40779'>CVE-2024-40779</a>
* Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.44.3.
* Credit to Huang Xilin of Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab.
* Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process
crash. Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
* WebKit Bugzilla: 275431

* <a name='CVE-2024-40780' href='https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-40780'>CVE-2024-40780</a>
* Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.44.3.
* Credit to Huang Xilin of Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab.
* Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process
crash. Description: An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking.
* WebKit Bugzilla: 275273

* <a name='CVE-2024-40782' href='https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-40782'>CVE-2024-40782</a>
* Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.44.3.
* Credit to Maksymilian Motyl.
* Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process
crash. Description: A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory
management.
* WebKit Bugzilla: 268770

* <a name='CVE-2024-40785' href='https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-40785'>CVE-2024-40785</a>
* Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.44.3.
* Credit to Johan Carlsson (joaxcar).
* Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to a cross site scripting
attack. Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.
* WebKit Bugzilla: 273805

* <a name='CVE-2024-40789' href='https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-40789'>CVE-2024-40789</a>
* Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.44.3.
* Credit to Seunghyun Lee (@0x10n) of KAIST Hacking Lab working with Trend Micro Zero Day
Initiative.
* Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process
crash. Description: An out-of-bounds access issue was addressed with improved bounds
checking.


* <a name='CVE-2024-40794' href='https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-40794'>CVE-2024-40794</a>
* Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.44.3.
* Credit to Matthew Butler.
* Impact: Private Browsing tabs may be accessed without authentication. Description:
This issue was addressed through improved state management.
* WebKit Bugzilla: 275272

* <a name='CVE-2024-4558' href='https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-4558'>CVE-2024-4558</a>
* Versions affected: WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit before 2.44.3.
* Credit to an anonymous researcher.
* Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process
crash. Description: Use after free in ANGLE allowed a remote attacker to potentially
exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
* WebKit Bugzilla: 274165

We recommend updating to the latest stable versions of WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit. It is the
best way to ensure that you are running safe versions of WebKit. Please check our websites
for information about the latest stable releases.

Further information about WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit security advisories can be found at:
[webkitgtk.org/security.html](https://webkitgtk.org/security.html) or
[wpewebkit.org/security](https://wpewebkit.org/security).

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