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Fedora: 2017-bff1b87765 Critical: WebKitGTK+ Web Process Risks

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Calendar Grey July 7, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential updates have been released for WebKitGTK+ on Fedora to resolve various vulnerabilities and system hang-ups.
This update addresses the following vulnerabilities: * [CVE-2017-2538](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2538) Additional fixes: * Fix web process deadlock when seeking you...

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-2017-2538](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2538)

Additional fixes: * Fix web process deadlock when seeking youtube videos. * Fix

blob downloads. * Improve theme rendering performance when using GTK+ >= 3.20. *

Fix positioning of popup menus in Wayland. * Fix JavaScriptCore crashes on big-endian architectures * Fix a web process crash when page finishes loading in

several web sites. * Fix the menu of select elements not showing in some cases

under Wayland. * 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 25
Version: 2.16.5
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: GTK+ Web content engine library

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