cve-2023-38538
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-04 19:10
Modified
2024-09-19 15:27
Severity ?
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Summary
A race condition in an event subsystem led to a heap use-after-free issue in established audio/video calls that could have resulted in app termination or unexpected control flow with very low probability.
References
cve-assign@fb.comhttps://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2023/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2023/Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Facebook WhatsApp Desktop for Mac Version: 0   ≤
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   Facebook WhatsApp Desktop for Windows Version: 0   ≤
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   Facebook WhatsApp Business for iOS Version: 0   ≤
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   Facebook WhatsApp for iOS Version: 0   ≤
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   Facebook WhatsApp Business for Android Version: 0   ≤
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