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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS USN-5522-1 Critical: WebKitGTK Remote Exploits

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Calendar Grey July 18, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Recent WebKitGTK patches address severe vulnerabilities impacting users on Ubuntu platforms. It's crucial to update your system to maintain security.
Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK.

Summary

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

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.36.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0 2.36.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.36.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 2.36.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.36.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.36.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 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-5522-1

CVE-2022-22677, CVE-2022-26710

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July 18, 2022

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

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.36.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.36.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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