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Fedora 38 Update: Addressing Webkitgtk Rendering Problems and Fixes

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 38 has rolled out an update specifically targeting several rendering glitches and security flaws within webkitgtk. Users can now download Version 2.40.2.
* Fix scrollbar jumping to top when drag released outside window in GTK 4

Summary

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

GTK platform.

* Fix scrollbar jumping to top when drag released outside window in GTK 4. *

Fix video rendering when GL is disabled. * Fix flickering on looped videos when

starting again. * Fix CPU usage on autoplaying videos. * Choose amount of

painting threads depending on available CPU cores on GTK 4. * Fix several

crashes and rendering issues. * Fix CVE-2023-28204 and CVE-2023-32373.

* Tue May 30 2023 Michael Catanzaro - 2.40.2-1

- Update to 2.40.2

[ 1 ] Bug #2209229 - CVE-2023-28204 webkitgtk: an out-of-bounds read when processing malicious content [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209229

[ 2 ] Bug #2209755 - [CISA Major Incident] CVE-2023-32373 webkitgtk: a use-after-free when processing maliciously crafted web content [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209755

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-9e75e38b47' 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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 38
Version: 2.40.2
Release: 1.fc38
Summary: GTK web content engine library

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