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Fedora 40: 2024-4d940908db moderate: webkitgtk crash fixes

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Calendar Grey November 16, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Fedora security bulletin for WebKitGTK tackles critical crashes and display errors, providing essential updates. Ensure your system's safety!
Update to WebKitGTK 2.46.3: Flatten layers to a plane when preseve-3d style is set

Summary

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

GTK platform.

Update Information:

Update to WebKitGTK 2.46.3: Flatten layers to a plane when preseve-3d style is set. Fix DuckDuckGo links by adding a user agent quirk. Fix several crashes and rendering issues. Fixes: CVE-2024-44244, CVE-2024-44296 Changes from WebKitGTK 2.46.2: Own well-known bus name on a11y bus. Improve memory consumption when putImageData is used repeatedly on accelerated canvas. Disable cached web process suspension for now to prevent leaks. Improve text kerning with different combinations of antialias and hinting settings. Destroy all network sessions on process exit. Fix visible rectangle calculation when there are animations. Fix the build with ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS=OFF. Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora crash fix GTK webkitgtk user agent

Change Log

* Wed Oct 30 2024 Michael Catanzaro - 2.46.3-1 - Update to 2.46.3

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2323285 - CVE-2024-44244 webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2323285 [ 2 ] Bug #2323298 - CVE-2024-44296 webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2323298

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-4d940908db' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: webkitgtk
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 2.46.3
Release: 1.fc40
URL: https://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary: GTK web content engine library

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora crash fix GTK webkitgtk user agent

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