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Debian: DSA-5341-1 Critical: Wpewebkit Code Exec Threats

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2023
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Important security patches released for Debian's wpewebkit package, rectifying several vulnerabilities related to code execution. Update immediately!
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 2.38.4-1~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

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

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