About the security content of Safari 16.1

This document describes the security content of Safari 16.1.

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Safari 16.1

Released October 24, 2022

WebKit

Available for: macOS Big Sur and macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 246669

CVE-2022-42826: Francisco Alonso (@revskills)

Entry added December 22, 2022

WebKit

Available for: macOS Big Sur and macOS Monterey

Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to user interface spoofing

Description: The issue was addressed with improved UI handling.

WebKit Bugzilla: 243693

CVE-2022-42799: Jihwan Kim (@gPayl0ad), Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun)

WebKit

Available for: macOS Big Sur and macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

WebKit Bugzilla: 244622

CVE-2022-42823: Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun) of SSD Labs

WebKit

Available for: macOS Big Sur and macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user information

Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 245058

CVE-2022-42824: Abdulrahman Alqabandi of Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research, Ryan Shin of IAAI SecLab at Korea University, Dohyun Lee (@l33d0hyun) of DNSLab at Korea University

WebKit

Available for: macOS Big Sur and macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose internal states of the app

Description: A correctness issue in the JIT was addressed with improved checks.

WebKit Bugzilla: 242964

CVE-2022-32923: Wonyoung Jung (@nonetype_pwn) of KAIST Hacking Lab

Entry added October 27, 2022

WebKit PDF

Available for: macOS Big Sur and macOS Monterey

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

WebKit Bugzilla: 242781

CVE-2022-32922: Yonghwi Jin (@jinmo123) at Theori working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative

Additional recognition

WebKit

We would like to acknowledge Maddie Stone of Google Project Zero, Narendra Bhati (@imnarendrabhati) of Suma Soft Pvt. Ltd., an anonymous researcher for their assistance.

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