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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: USN-4422-1 Critical: WebKitGTK Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 14, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4423-1 outlines updates addressing vulnerabilities in OpenSSL impacting various versions.
Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service remote code execution cross-site scripting ubuntu webkitgtk

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.28.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.28.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Ubuntu 19.10: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.28.3-0ubuntu0.19.10.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.28.3-0ubuntu0.19.10.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.28.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.28.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. After a standard system update you need to restart any applications that use WebKitGTK, such as Epiphany, to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4422-1

CVE-2020-13753, CVE-2020-9802, CVE-2020-9803, CVE-2020-9805,

CVE-2020-9806, CVE-2020-9807, CVE-2020-9843, CVE-2020-9850

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July 14, 2020

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security advisory denial of service remote code execution cross-site scripting ubuntu webkitgtk

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.28.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.28.3-0ubuntu0.19.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.28.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

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