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Fedora 26: 2017-0ad0e2f390 Critical: WebkitGTK4 Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey January 9, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Tackling vulnerabilities in webkitgtk4 for Fedora 26. Upgrade immediately to safeguard yourself from serious risks.
This update addresses the following vulnerabilities: * [CVE-2017-13866](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13866), [CVE-2017-13870](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017...

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-2017-13866](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13866),

[CVE-2017-13870](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13870),

[CVE-2017-7156](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7156),

[CVE-2017-13856](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13856)

Additional fixes: * Make WebDriver implementation more spec compliant. * Fix a

bug when trying to remove cookies before a web process is spawned. *

WebKitWebDriver process no longer links to libjavascriptcoregtk. * Fix several

memory leaks in GStreamer media backend.

[ 1 ] Bug #1527747 - CVE-2017-13856 webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527747

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

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GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.18.4
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: GTK+ Web content engine library

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