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Debian: DSA-5340-1 Critical: WebKitGTK Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2023
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WebKitGTK has issued security patches that tackle various vulnerabilities, notably the risk of arbitrary code execution. Ensure your packages are updated.
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine: CVE-2022-42826

Summary

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

CVE-2022-42826

Francisco Alonso discovered that processing maliciously crafted
web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

CVE-2023-23517

YeongHyeon Choi, Hyeon Park, SeOk JEON, YoungSung Ahn, JunSeo Bae
and Dohyun Lee discovered that processing maliciously crafted web
content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

CVE-2023-23518

YeongHyeon Choi, Hyeon Park, SeOk JEON, YoungSung Ahn, JunSeo Bae
and Dohyun Lee discovered that processing maliciously crafted web
content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.38.4-2~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

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Package: webkit2gtk
CVE ID: CVE-2022-42826 CVE-2023-23517 CVE-2023-23518

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