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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: 5568-1 Critical: WebKitGTK Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Significant vulnerabilities in WebKitGTK were addressed for Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 to improve the security of the web browsing experience.
Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service critical remote code execution xss 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 2.36.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.36.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 2.36.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.36.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.36.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 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-5568-1

CVE-2022-2294, CVE-2022-32792, CVE-2022-32816

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August 15, 2022

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security advisory denial of service critical remote code execution xss ubuntu webkitgtk

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.36.6-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.36.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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