Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-12911

critical

CVE-2018-12911

WebKitGTK+ 2.20.3 has an off-by-one error, with a resultant out-of-bou ...

Published Modified CWE 787
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

WebKitGTK+ 2.20.3 has an off-by-one error, with a resultant out-of-bounds write, in the get_simple_globs functions in ThirdParty/xdgmime/src/xdgmimecache.c and ThirdParty/xdgmime/src/xdgmimeglob.c.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.8webkit2gtk2.20.4-r0
debian 11webkit2gtk2.20.4-1
debian 12webkit2gtk2.20.4-1
debian 13webkit2gtk2.20.4-1
debian 14webkit2gtk2.20.4-1
echowebkit2gtk2.20.4-1
ubuntu 16.04webkit2gtk2.20.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMwebkit2gtk2.20.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ubuntu 18.04webkit2gtk2.20.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMwebkit2gtk2.20.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

References

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