CVE-2021-21779

medium
Published 2021-11-09 Β· Modified 2021-11-09
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the way Webkit’s GraphicsContext handles certain events in WebKitGTK 2.30.4. A specially crafted web page can lead to a potential information leak and further memory corruption. A victim must be tricked into visiting a malicious web page to trigger this vulnerability.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
β€” Affected β€”
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
β€” Fixed 2.32.3-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.32.3-1
sid Fixed 2.32.3-1
forky Fixed 2.32.3-1
bullseye Fixed 2.32.3-1
bookworm Fixed 2.32.3-1
redhat Red Hat Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed β€”
rockylinux Rocky Linux Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8 Fixed β€”

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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