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Debian: DSA-4797-1 Critical Update for Webkit2gtk Security Issues

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2020
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4964-1 brings urgent patches for libjpeg vulnerabilities that demand swift action.
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the webkit2gtk web engine: CVE-2020-9948
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Summary

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

CVE-2020-9948

Brendan Draper discovered that processing maliciously crafted web
content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

CVE-2020-9951

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

CVE-2020-9983

zhunki discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content
may lead to code execution.

CVE-2020-13584

Cisco 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 2.30.3-1~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-package/webkit2gtk

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Package: webkit2gtk
CVE ID: CVE-2020-9948 CVE-2020-9951 CVE-2020-9983 CVE-2020-13584

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