FKIE_CVE-2023-38538

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-10-04 20:15 - Updated: 2024-11-21 08:13
Severity ?
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
5.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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
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