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Fedora 24 Critical Update: Webkitgtk4 Addresses Multiple Risks

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Calendar Grey June 15, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 24 introduces a significant update to webkitgtk4, resolving several major security vulnerabilities and bugs for improved protection.
This update addresses the following vulnerabilities: * [CVE-2017-2496](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2496), [CVE-2017-2539](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2...

Summary

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

GTK+ platform.

This package contains WebKitGTK+ for GTK+ 3.

This update addresses the following vulnerabilities: *

[CVE-2017-2496](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2496),

[CVE-2017-2539](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2539),

[CVE-2017-2510](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2510)

Additional fixes: * Fix URL shown in the title of beforeunload dialogs. * Focus

first input field of HTTP authentication dialog. * Fix rendering glitches in

HiDPI in long GitHub Gist pages when focusing the comments textarea. * Remove

Firefox user agent quirk for Google domains. * Remove LATEST_RECORD_VERSION from

GnuTLS priority string. * Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

su -c 'dnf upgrade webkitgtk4' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 2.16.3
Release: 1.fc24
Summary: GTK+ Web content engine library

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