CVE-2022-42826: Use After Free

Published Oct 24, 2022
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Updated

A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16, Safari 16.1. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Other sources

Accelerate Framework. A memory consumption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

— Apple

APFS. An access issue was addressed with improved access restrictions.

— Apple

Apple Neural Engine. The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

— Apple

Apple TV. The issue was addressed with improved handling of caches.

— Apple

AppleAVD. A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.

— Apple

Credit

Willy R. Vasquez(The University of Texas at Austin), Peter Pan ZhenPeng(STAR Labs), Tingting Yin(Tsinghua University), Tommy Muir@@Muirey03, Tim Michaud@@TimGMichaud(Moveworks), Xinru Chi(Pangu Lab), John Aakerblom@@jaakerblom, Ian Beer(Google Project Zero), Zweig(Kunlun Lab), an anonymous researcher, Xingwei Lin@@xwlin_roy(Ant Security Light), Yinyi Wu(Ant Security Light), IES Red Team(ByteDance), Mir Masood Ali(Illinois at Chicago), PhD student(Illinois at Chicago), University(Illinois at Chicago), MS student(Illinois at Chicago), Stony Brook University; Mohammad Ghasemisharif(Illinois at Chicago), PhD Candidate(Illinois at Chicago), Associate Professor(Illinois at Chicago), Stony Brook University; Jason Polakis(Illinois at Chicago), Justin Bui@@slyd0g(Snowflake), Cristian Dinca(Tudor Vianu National High School of Computer Science of), Francisco Alonso@@revskills, Jihwan Kim@@gPayl0ad, Dohyun Lee@@l33d0hyun, Dohyun Lee@@l33d0hyun(SSD Labs), Abdulrahman Alqabandi(Microsoft Browser Vulnerability Research), Ryan Shin(IAAI SecLab at Korea University), Dohyun Lee@@l33d0hyun(DNSLab at Korea University), Yonghwi Jin at Theori@@jinmo123(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), Wonyoung Jung@@nonetype_pwn(KAIST Hacking Lab), Dr Hideaki Goto(Tohoku University), Japan, Evgeny Legerov, Mohamed Ghannam@@_simo36, Mickey Jin@@patch1t, Csaba Fitzl@@theevilbit(Offensive Security), Anonymous(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), ABC Research s.r.o., Jonathan Zhang(Open Computing Facility), Guilherme Rambo(Best Buddy Apps), Bistrit Dahal, Asahi Lina@@LinaAsahi, Yinyi Wu(Google Project Zero), ABC Research s.r.o(Google Project Zero), Natalie Silvanovich(Google Project Zero), Tommaso Bianco@@cutesmilee__, Antonio Zekic@@antoniozekic, Antonio Zekic@@antoniozekic(Google Project Zero), Wojciech Reguła@@_r3ggi(SecuRing), Koh M. Nakagawa(FFRI Security Inc), Jonathan Bar Or(Microsoft), Mickey Jin@@patch1t(Trend Micro), David Hoyt(Hoyt LLC), Halle Winkler@@hallewinkler(Politepix), Thijs Alkemade(Computest Sector 7), Arsenii Kostromin, Arsenii Kostromin (0x3c3e), Kshitij Kumar(Crowdstrike), Jai Musunuri(Crowdstrike), CVE-2022-32205, CVE-2022-32206, CVE-2022-32207, CVE-2022-32208, Sergii Kryvoblotskyi(MacPaw Inc), Linus Henze(Pinauten GmbH), Jiří Vinopal@@vinopaljiri(Check Point Research), Sonali Luthar(the University of Virginia), Michael Liao(the University of Illinois at Urbana), Rohan Pahwa(Rutgers University), (University of Florida), Bao Nguyen(University of Florida), Wojciech Reguła(SecuRing), Ron Masas (breakpoint.sh)(BreakPoint Technologies LTD), Pan ZhenPeng@@Peterpan0927, Yutao Wang@@Jack, Yu Zhou@@yuzhou6666, Evgeny Legerov(Intevydis), Joshua Jones, Yiğit Can YILMAZ@@yilmazcanyigit, CVE-2022-1622, Ron Masas(breakpointhq), CVE-2021-39537, CVE-2022-29458, Gustav Hansen(WithSecure), Ubeydullah Sümer, Ezekiel Elin, Ashwani Rajput(Nagarro Software Pvt), Srijan Shivam Mishra(The Hack Report), Jugal Goradia(Aastha Technologies), Evan Ricafort (evanricafort.com)(Invalid Web Security), Shesha Sai C (linkedin.com/in/shesha-sai-c-18585b125)(Pune), (Pune), Amod Raghunath Patwardhan(Pune), India, CVE-2022-28739, Rohit Chatterjee(University of Illinois Urbana), Om kothawade(Zaprico Digital), Andrew Goldberg(The McCombs School of Business), The University(Texas at Austin), Felix Poulin-Belanger, CVE-2021-36690, Adam Chester(TrustedSec), Thijs Alkemade@@xnyhps(Computest Sector 7), CVE-2022-0261, CVE-2022-0318, CVE-2022-0319, CVE-2022-0351, CVE-2022-0359, CVE-2022-0361, CVE-2022-0368, CVE-2022-0392, CVE-2022-0554, CVE-2022-0572, CVE-2022-0629, CVE-2022-0685, CVE-2022-0696, CVE-2022-0714, CVE-2022-0729, CVE-2022-0943, CVE-2022-1381, CVE-2022-1420, CVE-2022-1725, CVE-2022-1616, CVE-2022-1619, CVE-2022-1620, CVE-2022-1621, CVE-2022-1629, CVE-2022-1674, CVE-2022-1733, CVE-2022-1735, CVE-2022-1769, CVE-2022-1927, CVE-2022-1942, CVE-2022-1968, CVE-2022-1851, CVE-2022-1897, CVE-2022-1898, CVE-2022-1720, CVE-2022-2000, CVE-2022-2042, CVE-2022-2124, CVE-2022-2125, CVE-2022-2126, P1umer@@p1umer, afang@@afang5472, xmzyshypnc@@xmzyshypnc1, Jeonghoon Shin at Theori@@singi21a(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), Yonghwi Jin at Theori@@jinmo123(Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative), 楼梦想改造家@@18(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), @@jq0904(DBAppSecurity's WeBin lab), Jeff Johnson, Wang Yu(Cyberserval), ryuzaki

Affected Software

19 affected componentsFixes available
Apple macOS Ventura<13
13
Apple Safari<16.1
16.1
Apple iOS<16.1
16.1
Apple iPadOS<16
16
Apple iPadOS<16.1
Apple iPhone OS<16.1
Apple macOS<13.0
Apple Safari<16.1
Apple Safari<16.1
WebKitGTK Webkitgtk\+<2.40.1
redhat/webkitgtk<2.38.4
2.38.4
debian/webkit2gtk<2.38.4-1
2.38.4-1
debian/webkit2gtk<2.38.4-1
2.38.4-1
debian/webkit2gtk<2.38.4-1
2.38.4-1
debian/wpewebkit<2.38.4-1
2.38.4-1
debian/wpewebkit<2.38.4-1
2.38.4-1
debian/wpewebkit<2.38.4-1
2.38.4-1
debian/webkit2gtk
2.50.6-1~deb12u22.50.6-1~deb12u12.52.6-1~deb13u12.54.0-1~deb13u32.52.6-12.54.2-2
debian/wpewebkit
2.38.6-12.48.3-12.54.2-1

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade macOS Ventura to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 13
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade Safari to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 16.1
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade Apple iOS and iPadOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 16.1
  4. Upgrade

    Upgrade Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 16
  5. Upgrade

    Upgrade redhat/WebKitGTK to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.38.4
  6. Upgrade

    Upgrade debian/webkit2gtk to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.50.6-1~deb12u2Fixed in 2.50.6-1~deb12u1Fixed in 2.52.6-1~deb13u1Fixed in 2.54.0-1~deb13u3Fixed in 2.52.6-1Fixed in 2.54.2-2
  7. Upgrade

    Upgrade debian/wpewebkit to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.38.6-1Fixed in 2.48.3-1Fixed in 2.54.2-1
  8. Upgrade

    Upgrade debian/webkit2gtk to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.38.4-1
  9. Upgrade

    Upgrade debian/wpewebkit to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.38.4-1
  10. Upgrade

    Upgrade to a fixed release to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 13
  11. Upgrade

    Upgrade WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.38.4
  12. Upgrade

    Upgrade Ruby to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.6.10
  13. Upgrade

    Upgrade curl to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 7.84.0
  14. Upgrade

    Upgrade iOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 16.1
  15. Upgrade

    Upgrade iPadOS to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 16

Event History

Oct 24, 2022
Data Sourced
via Apple·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeaknessAffected Software
Feb 7, 2023
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·11:18 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software
Feb 27, 2023
CVE Published
via MITRE·12:00 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·12:00 AM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via OSV·08:15 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

Parent advisories

This vulnerability appears in the following advisories.

Peer vulnerabilities

Found alongside the following vulnerabilities.

Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is CVE-2022-42826?

CVE-2022-42826 is a vulnerability in WebKit that allows for a use after free issue due to insufficient memory management.

2

Which software is affected by CVE-2022-42826?

CVE-2022-42826 affects Apple iOS 16.1, Apple iPadOS 16, Apple Safari 16.1, and macOS Ventura 13.

3

What is the severity of CVE-2022-42826?

The severity of CVE-2022-42826 is not specified.

4

How can I fix CVE-2022-42826?

To fix CVE-2022-42826, update your Apple iOS, Apple iPadOS, Apple Safari, and macOS Ventura software to the specified versions or higher.

5

Where can I find more information about CVE-2022-42826?

You can find more information about CVE-2022-42826 on the Apple support website.

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