Vulnerability CVE-2017-17821
Published: 2017-12-20   Modified: 2017-12-21

Description:
WTF/wtf/FastBitVector.h in WebKit, as distributed in Safari Technology Preview Release 46, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact because it calls the FastBitVectorWordOwner::resizeSlow function (in WTF/wtf/FastBitVector.cpp) for a purpose other than initializing a bitvector size, and resizeSlow mishandles cases where the old array length is greater than the new array length.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Apple -> Safari 

 References:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181020
https://github.com/dwfault/PoCs/blob/master/WebKit%20Misuse%20of%20WTF:wtf:FastBitVector%20result%20in%20potential%20BOF/WebKit%20Misuse%20of%20WTF:wtf:FastBitVector%20result%20in%20potential%20BOF.md
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