The UIProcess subsystem in WebKit, as used in WebKitGTK through 2.23.90 and WebKitGTK+ through 2.22.6 and other products, does not prevent the script dialog size from exceeding the web view size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Buffer Overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact, related to UIProcess/API/gtk/WebKitScriptDialogGtk.cpp, UIProcess/API/gtk/WebKitScriptDialogImpl.cpp, and UIProcess/API/gtk/WebKitWebViewGtk.cpp, as demonstrated by GNOME Web (aka Epiphany).
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8375
Reference (s):
- EXPLOIT-DB:46465
- URL: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46465/
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184875
- https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/commit/6f9b511a115311b13c06eb58038ddc2c78da5531
- https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/241515/webkit