Fedora 22: webkitgtk4 Security Update 2015-11395
Summary
WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the
GTK+ platform.
This package contains WebKitGTK+ for GTK+ 3.
Update Information:
WebKitGTK+ 2.8.4 includes fixes for 12 security issues. Additional fixes:
* Make WebSQL work by using a default quota instead of always failing in openDatabase with DOM Exception 18. * Improve detection and usage of GL/GLES/EGL libraries. * Fix a crash on memory allocation using bmalloc on 32bit systems. * Fix DOCUMENT_VIEWER cache model to actually disable the memory cache. * Fix a WebProcess crash after too many redirect error when there's an active NPAPI plugin. * Fix a WebProcess crash when gtk-font-name setting is empty. * Ensure Math.abs() doesn't return negative. * Correctly restore accelerated compositing after a WebProcess crash. * Respect X-Frame-Options headers when loading from application cache. * Several crashes and rendering issues fixed. * Fix the MIPS N64 detection. * Fix several memory leaks. * Translation updates: Catalan. * Workaround a crash affecting 32-bit computers.
Change Log
* Thu Jul 9 2015 Michael Catanzaro
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1225733 - [abrt] [faf] webkitgtk4: bmalloc::Heap::allocateXLarge(std::lock_guard&, unsigned int, unsigned int)(): /usr/libexec/webkit2gtk-4.0/WebKitWebProcess killed by 11 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225733
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update webkitgtk4' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .