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Fedora 35: 2022-e7726761c4 Critical: Webkit2gtk3 Memory Handling Issue

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Calendar Grey November 14, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 35 receives a major update focusing on resolving multiple webkit2gtk3 vulnerabilities, boosting overall security and performance.
* Fix scrolling issues in some sites having fixed background

Summary

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

GTK platform.

This package contains WebKit2 based WebKitGTK for GTK 3.

* Fix scrolling issues in some sites having fixed background. * Fix prolonged

buffering during progressive live playback. * Fix several crashes and rendering

issues. * Security fixes: CVE-2022-42799, CVE-2022-42823, CVE-2022-42824 ----* Make xdg-dbus-proxy work if host session bus address is an abstract socket. *

Use a single xdg-dbus-proxy process when sandbox is enabled. * Fix high

resolution video playback due to unimplemented changeType operation. * Ensure

GSubprocess uses posix_spawn() again and inherit file descriptors. * Fix player

getting stuck in buffering (paused) state for progressive streaming. * Do not

try to preconnect on link click when link preconnect setting is disabled. * Fix

close status code returned when the client closes a WebSocket in some cases. *

Fix media player duration calculation. * Fix several crashes and rendering

issues.

* Fri Nov 4 2022 Michael Catanzaro 2.38.2-1

- Update to 2.38.2

* Tue Oct 25 2022 Michael Catanzaro 2.38.1-1

- Update to 2.38.1

[ 1 ] Bug #2140510 - CVE-2022-42799 webkit2gtk3: webkitgtk: a issue was addressed with improved UI handling [fedora-35]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2140510

[ 2 ] Bug #2140516 - CVE-2022-42824 webkit2gtk3: webkitgtk: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management [fedora-35]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2140516

[ 3 ] Bug #2140522 - CVE-2022-42823 webkit2gtk3: webkitgtk: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling [fedora-35]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2140522

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-e7726761c4' 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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Product: Fedora 35
Version: 2.38.2
Release: 1.fc35
Summary: GTK Web content engine library

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