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Fedora 40 FEDORA-2024-6b8845e3f0 Critical: webkitgtk Remote Code Execution

fedora
Calendar Grey August 27, 2024
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Ubuntu 22.04 gnome-shell upgrade brings essential enhancements for performance and safety issues.
Fix web process cache suspend/resume when sandbox is enabled

Summary

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

GTK platform.

Update Information:

Fix web process cache suspend/resume when sandbox is enabled. Fix accelerated images disappearing after scrolling. Fix video flickering with DMA-BUF sink. Fix pointer lock on X11. Fix movement delta on mouse events in GTK3. Undeprecate console message API and make it available in 2022 API. Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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security advisory fedora update critical remote code execution software fix webkitgtk

Change Log

* Thu Aug 15 2024 Michael Catanzaro - 2.44.3-2 - Add patch to fix WebAssembly * Tue Aug 13 2024 Michael Catanzaro - 2.44.3-1 - Update to 2.44.3

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2301844 - CVE-2024-40776 webkitgtk: Use after free may lead to Remote Code Execution [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2301844 [ 2 ] Bug #2302095 - CVE-2024-40779 webkitgtk: Out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302095 [ 3 ] Bug #2302096 - CVE-2024-40780 webkitgtk: Out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302096 [ 4 ] Bug #2302097 - CVE-2024-40789 webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302097 [ 5 ] Bug #2302101 - CVE-2024-40782 webkitgtk: Use after free may lead to Remote Code Execution [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302101

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-6b8845e3f0' 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: 2.44.3
Release: 2.fc40
URL: https://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary: GTK web content engine library

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security advisory fedora update critical remote code execution software fix webkitgtk

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