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Fedora 27 FEDORA-2017-06b373d942 critical: webkitgtk4 Code Execution

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Calendar Grey December 28, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This Fedora 27 upgrade for webkitgtk4 resolves significant vulnerabilities, encompassing executable code weaknesses and memory mishaps.
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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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 2.18.4
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: GTK+ Web content engine library

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