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Safari 11.0.2

Released December 6, 2017

WebKit

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, and macOS High Sierra 10.13.2

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2017-13885: 360 Security working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

Entry added January 22, 2018

WebKit

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, and macOS High Sierra 10.13.2

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed through improved memory handling.

CVE-2017-7165: 360 Security working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

Entry added January 22, 2018

WebKit

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, and macOS High Sierra 10.13.2

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2017-13884: 360 Security working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

Entry added January 22, 2018

WebKit

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, and macOS High Sierra 10.13.2

Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to user interface spoofing

Description: Redirect responses to 401 Unauthorized may allow a malicious website to incorrectly display the lock icon on mixed content. This issue was addressed through improved URL display logic.

CVE-2017-7153: Jerry Decime

Entry added January 11, 2018

WebKit

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, and macOS High Sierra 10.13.2

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling.

CVE-2017-7156: Yuan Deng of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab

CVE-2017-7157: an anonymous researcher

CVE-2017-13856: Jeonghoon Shin

CVE-2017-13870: Tencent Keen Security Lab (@keen_lab) working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

CVE-2017-7160: Richard Zhu (fluorescence) working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

CVE-2017-13866: Tencent Keen Security Lab (@keen_lab) working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative

Entry updated January 10, 2018

WebKit Web Inspector

Available for: OS X El Capitan 10.11.6, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, and macOS High Sierra 10.13.2

Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

Description: A command injection issue existed in Web Inspector. This issue was addressed through improved escaping of special characters.

CVE-2017-7161: Mitin Svyat

Entry added January 10, 2018

Additional recognition

WebKit

We would like to acknowledge Yiğit Can YILMAZ (@yilmazcanyigit) and Abhinash Jain (@abhinashjain) researcher for their assistance.

Entry added February 14, 2018, updated April 9, 2018