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Debian: DSA-5835-1 webkitgtk update for process crash and corruption

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Calendar Grey December 25, 2024
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security alert DSA-5835-1 pertaining to webkitgtk software package, focusing on severe vulnerabilities leading to potential application failures and memory instability.
The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine: CVE-2024-54479
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Summary

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

CVE-2024-54479

Seunghyun Lee discovered that processing maliciously crafted web
content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

CVE-2024-54502

Brendon Tiszka discovered that processing maliciously crafted web
content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

CVE-2024-54505

Gary Kwong discovered that processing maliciously crafted web
content may lead to memory corruption.

CVE-2024-54508

linjy, chluo and Xiangwei Zhang discovered that processing
maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process
crash.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.46.5-1~deb12u1.

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-2024-54479 CVE-2024-54502 CVE-2024-54505 CVE-2024-54508

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