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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2023:0016-01 webkit2gtk3 Important Code Exec

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Calendar Grey January 4, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical vulnerability identified within webkit2gtk3 on CentOS, leading to an elevated risk of unapproved code execution.
An update for webkit2gtk3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform.
Security Fix(es):
* webkitgtk: processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-42856)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory code execution arbitrary code execution linux distribution important update red hat advisory webkit2gtk3

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-42856 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: webkit2gtk3-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.src.rpm
aarch64: webkit2gtk3-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-debugsource-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-devel-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-devel-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: webkit2gtk3-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-debugsource-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-devel-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-devel-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: webkit2gtk3-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm webkit2gtk3-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm webkit2gtk3-debugsource-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm webkit2gtk3-devel-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm webkit2gtk3-devel-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el8_7.1.s390x.rpm

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Severity
important
Lowest
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0016-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0016
Issue date: 2023-01-04

Topic

An update for webkit2gtk3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory code execution arbitrary code execution linux distribution important update red hat advisory webkit2gtk3

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2153683 - CVE-2022-42856 webkitgtk: processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an arbitrary code execution

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