About the security content of Safari 18.2
This document describes the security content of Safari 18.2.
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Safari 18.2
Released December 11, 2024
Safari
Available for: macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma
Impact: On a device with Private Relay enabled, adding a website to the Safari Reading List may reveal the originating IP address to the website
Description: The issue was addressed with improved routing of Safari-originated requests.
CVE-2024-44246: Jacob Braun
WebKit
Available for: macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash
Description: The issue was addressed with improved checks.
WebKit Bugzilla: 278497
CVE-2024-54479: Seunghyun Lee
WebKit Bugzilla: 281912
CVE-2024-54502: Brendon Tiszka of Google Project Zero
WebKit
Available for: macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 282180
CVE-2024-54508: linjy of HKUS3Lab and chluo of WHUSecLab, Xiangwei Zhang of Tencent Security YUNDING LAB
WebKit
Available for: macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 282661
CVE-2024-54505: Gary Kwong
WebKit
Available for: macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
WebKit Bugzilla: 277967
CVE-2024-54534: Tashita Software Security
Additional recognition
Safari
We would like to acknowledge Jaydev Ahire for their assistance.
WebKit
We would like to acknowledge Hafiizh for their assistance.
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