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Fedora 22: 2016-143a48536c Critical: WebKitGTK Network Issues

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Calendar Grey February 10, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Addressing vulnerabilities, WebKitGTK+ security enhancements, and advancements in Fedora 22 are our key focus areas
This update together with previous releases addresses the following vulnerabilities: - CVE-2015-7096 - CVE-2015-7098 Additional fixes: - Disable DNS prefetch when a proxy is confi...

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:

This update together with previous releases addresses the following vulnerabilities: - CVE-2015-7096 - CVE-2015-7098 Additional fixes: - Disable DNS prefetch when a proxy is configured. - Reduce the maximum simultaneous network connections to match other browsers. - Make WebKitWebView always propagate motion-notify-event signal. - Add a way to force accelerating compositing mode at runtime using an environment variable. - Fix input elements and scrollbars rendering with GTK+ 3.19. - Fix rendering of lines when using solid colors. - Fix UI process crashes related to not having a main resource response when the load is committed for pages restored from the history cache. - Fix a WebProcess crash when loading large contents with custom URI schemes API. - Fix a crash in the UI process when the WebView is destroyed while the screensaver DBus proxy is being created. - Fix WebProcess crashes due to BadDrawable X errors in accelerated compositing mode. - Fix crashes on PPC64 du...

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Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-143a48536c 2016-02-10 10:19:50.055536
Name : webkitgtk4 Product : Fedora 22 Version : 2.10.7 Release : 1.fc22 URL : https://www.webkitgtk.org/ Summary : GTK+ Web content engine library Description : WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK+ platform.
This package contains WebKitGTK+ for GTK+ 3.

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 .

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Name: webkitgtk4
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2.10.7
Release: 1.fc22
URL: https://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary: GTK+ Web content engine library

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