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Fedora 26: 2017-772bf90b03 Moderate WebkitGTK4 Crash and Performance Bugs

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora has released an update targeting CVE-2017-2538 along with numerous optimizations for webkitgtk4 performance enhancements.
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 several crashes and rendering

issues. * Fix JavaScriptCore crashes on big-endian architectures

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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.16.4
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: GTK+ Web content engine library

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