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Debian 10/11: DSA-5083-1 Critical: WebKitGTK Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2022
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The latest Debian security update addresses critical vulnerabilities in WebKitGTK, a web rendering engine for GTK, to prevent potential code execution risks.
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine: CVE-2022-22589

Summary

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

CVE-2022-22589

Heige and Bo Qu discovered that processing a maliciously crafted
mail message may lead to running arbitrary javascript.

CVE-2022-22590

Toan Pham discovered that processing maliciously crafted web
content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

CVE-2022-22592

Prakash discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content
may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced.

CVE-2022-22620

An anonymous researcher discovered that processing maliciously
crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is
aware of a report that this issue may have been actively
exploited.

For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.34.6-1~deb10u1.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.34.6-1~deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages.

For the detailed security status...

Read the Full Advisory

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Package: webkit2gtk
CVE ID: CVE-2022-22589 CVE-2022-22590 CVE-2022-22592 CVE-2022-22620

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