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Fedora 39: 2024-ee43b83290 Critical: WebKitGTK 2.44.0 Security Advisory

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Fedora Release Alert for webkitgtk 2.44.0 highlights enhancements in accessibility features and rendering capabilities.
Upgrade to 2.44.0: Make the DOM accessibility tree reachable from UI process with GTK4

Summary

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

GTK platform.

Update Information:

Upgrade to 2.44.0: Make the DOM accessibility tree reachable from UI process with GTK4. Removed the X11 and WPE renderers in favor of DMA-BUF. Improved vblank synchronization when rendering. Removed key event reinjection in GTK4 to make keyboard shortcuts work in web sites. Fix gamepads detection by correctly handling focused window in GTK4. CVE-2024-23263, CVE-2024-23280, CVE-2024-23284

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Change Log

* Sun Mar 17 2024 Michael Catanzaro - 2.44.0-2 - Fix i686 build * Sat Mar 16 2024 Michael Catanzaro - 2.44.0-1 - Upgrade to WebKitGTK 2.44.0

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2024-ee43b83290 2024-03-22 01:15:00.283857 Name : webkitgtk Product : Fedora 39 Version : 2.44.0 Release : 2.fc39 URL : https://www.webkitgtk.org/ Summary : GTK web content engine library Description : WebKitGTK is the port of the WebKit web rendering engine to the GTK platform.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-ee43b83290' 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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Name: webkitgtk
Product: Fedora 39
Version: 2.44.0
Release: 2.fc39
URL: https://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary: GTK web content engine library

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