Microsoft security update for CVE-2023-1999 — Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 113.0.1774.35 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2023-1999
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.3 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
There exists a use after free/double free in libwebp. An attacker can use the ApplyFiltersAndEncode() function and loop through to free best.bw and assign best = trial pointer. The second loop will then return 0 because of an Out of memory error in VP8 encoder, the pointer is still assigned to trial and the AddressSanitizer will attempt a double free.
Published by Google LLC, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2023-1999, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).