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Debian: DSA-5280-1 Important: WebKit Security Issues Identified

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Calendar Grey November 8, 2022
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Debian's WPE WebKit has received crucial security patches to mitigate significant threats. Update now for enhanced protection.
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WPE WebKit web engine: CVE-2022-42799
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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution Debian malicious content sensitive information WPE WebKit user interface spoofing

Summary

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WPE WebKit
web engine:

CVE-2022-42799

Jihwan Kim and Dohyun Lee discovered that visiting a malicious
website may lead to user interface spoofing.

CVE-2022-42823

Dohyun Lee discovered that processing maliciously crafted web
content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

CVE-2022-42824

Abdulrahman Alqabandi, Ryan Shin and Dohyun Lee discovered that
processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive
user information.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.38.2-1~deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wpewebkit packages.

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

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/



Severity
important
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Critical

Package: wpewebkit
CVE ID: CVE-2022-42799 CVE-2022-42823 CVE-2022-42824

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution Debian malicious content sensitive information WPE WebKit user interface spoofing

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