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Fedora 23 Security Advisory: Webkitgtk4 Critical Network Fixes

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Calendar Grey February 4, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Boost the security of your Fedora 23 by installing the recent webkitgtk4 patch that resolves several vulnerabilities and enhances overall efficiency.
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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security advisory security issue Fedora patch performance enhancement network fix WebKitGTK

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-ec05afb364 2016-02-04 19:22:11.001162
Name : webkitgtk4 Product : Fedora 23 Version : 2.10.7 Release : 1.fc23 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 23
Version: 2.10.7
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary: GTK+ Web content engine library

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Fedora patch performance enhancement network fix WebKitGTK

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