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Fedora 11: 2009:6166 Critical: WebKitGTK+ 1.1.8 Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.8 release for Fedora 11 resolves a critical buffer overflow vulnerability and improves essential functionalities.
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.8 contains many bug-fixes and updates including spell-checking support, enhanced error reporting, lots of ATK enhancements, support for copying images to the clipbo...

Summary

WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the

GTK+ platform.

Update Information:

WebKitGTK+ 1.1.8 contains many bug-fixes and updates including spell-checking support, enhanced error reporting, lots of ATK enhancements, support for copying images to the clipboard, and a new printing API (since 1.1.5) that allows applications better control and monitoring of the printing process. Also, a potential buffer overflow in SVGList::insertItemBefore has been fixed (CVE-2009-0945); and the JIT compiler is now enabled by default for x86_64 systems. Please see the upstream changelog for the full list of fixes and

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Change Log

* Fri May 29 2009 Peter Gordon - 1.1.8-1 - Update to new upstream release (1.1.8) * Thu May 28 2009 Peter Gordon - 1.1.7-1 - Update to new upstream release (1.1.7) - Remove jit build conditional. (JIT is now enabled by default on platforms which support it: currently 32- and 64-bit x86.) - Fix installation of the GtkLauncher demo program so that it is a binary and not a script. (Fixes bug #443048.) * Sat May 9 2009 Peter Gordon - 1.1.6-1 - Update to new upstream release (1.1.6). - Drop workaround for bug 488112 (fixed upstream). - Fixes bug 484335 (Copy link locations to the primary selection; patched upstream). - Include upstream changelog (NEWS) as part of the installed documentation. - Fix capitalization in previous %changelog entry. - Add build-time conditional support for 3-D transforms (default off).

References


[ 1 ] Bug #502673 - Please upgrade to version 1.1.7 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502673 [ 2 ] Bug #443048 - WebKit does not work https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443048 [ 3 ] Bug #484335 - Copy link locations to the primary selection https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484335

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update webkitgtk' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: webkitgtk
Product: Fedora 11
Version: 1.1.8
Release: 1.fc11
URL: https://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary: GTK+ Web content engine library

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