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Critical Security Advisory RHSA-2023:1918-01 for WebKit2Gtk3 in RHEL 9

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Calendar Grey April 20, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat issued a significant security patch for webkit2gtk3 on RHEL 9 in response to a serious code execution vulnerability.
An update for webkit2gtk3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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: use-after-free leads to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-28205)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat critical code execution important webkit2gtk3

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-28205 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: webkit2gtk3-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.src.rpm
aarch64: webkit2gtk3-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-debugsource-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-devel-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-devel-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: webkit2gtk3-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-debugsource-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-devel-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-devel-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: webkit2gtk3-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.s390x.rpm webkit2gtk3-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.s390x.rpm webkit2gtk3-debugsource-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.s390x.rpm webkit2gtk3-devel-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.s390x.rpm webkit2gtk3-devel-debuginfo-2.36.7-1.el9_1.3.s390x.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1918-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1918
Issue date: 2023-04-20

Topic

An update for webkit2gtk3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 security issue Red Hat critical code execution important webkit2gtk3

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2185724 - CVE-2023-28205 WebKitGTK: use-after-free leads to arbitrary code execution

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