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Debian Stable: DSA-5182-1 Moderate: WebKitGTK Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2022
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The WebKitGTK Security Bulletin DSA-5182-2 discloses vital patches addressing vulnerabilities tied to unauthorized code execution and challenges with multimedia playback.
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine: CVE-2022-22677
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security advisory code execution debian medium severity arbitrary code webkitgtk webRTC

Summary

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

CVE-2022-22677

An anonymous researcher discovered that the video in a webRTC call
may be interrupted if the audio capture gets interrupted.

CVE-2022-26710

Chijin Zhou discovered that processing maliciously crafted web
content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

For the oldstable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.36.4-1~deb10u1.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.36.4-1~deb11u1.

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

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: webkit2gtk
CVE ID: CVE-2022-22677 CVE-2022-26710

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution debian medium severity arbitrary code webkitgtk webRTC

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