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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.