CVE-2023-39928
High
CVE-2023-39928
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.
Exploit probability
1.4%
Published
October 6, 2023
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2023-39928
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4EEMDC5TQAANFH5D77QM34ZTUKXPFGVL/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-33
- https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1831
- https://webkitgtk.org/security/WSA-2023-0009.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5527
- https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1831