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Debian DSA-4627-1 Critical: Webkit2gtk Denial of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2020
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An update for webkit2gtk in Debian has rectified five security vulnerabilities. It's crucial to update your packages to enhance system safety.
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the webkit2gtk web engine: CVE-2020-3862

Summary

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the webkit2gtk
web engine:

CVE-2020-3862

Srikanth Gatta discovered that a malicious website may be able to
cause a denial of service.

CVE-2020-3864

Ryan Pickren discovered that a DOM object context may not have had
a unique security origin.

CVE-2020-3865

Ryan Pickren discovered that a top-level DOM object context may
have incorrectly been considered secure.

CVE-2020-3867

An anonymous researcher discovered that processing maliciously
crafted web content may lead to universal cross site scripting.

CVE-2020-3868

Marcin Towalski discovered that processing maliciously crafted web
content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.26.4-1~deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages.

For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source...

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Package: webkit2gtk
CVE ID: CVE-2020-3862 CVE-2020-3864 CVE-2020-3865 CVE-2020-3867

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