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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS USN-5642-1 Moderate: WebKitGTK Remote Exploitation

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Calendar Grey September 26, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Announcement USN-5642-1 highlights vulnerabilities in WebKitGTK, which may allow remote exploitation across various versions.
Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK.

Software Description:

- webkit2gtk: Web content engine library for GTK+

Details:

Several security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK Web and JavaScript

engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote

attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security,

including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and

arbitrary code execution.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote attack ubuntu web exploitation 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     2.36.8-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0      2.36.8-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37            2.36.8-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
  libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0             2.36.8-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18     2.36.8-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37            2.36.8-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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-5642-1

CVE-2022-32886

September 26, 2022

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote attack ubuntu web exploitation webkitgtk

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.36.8-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.36.8-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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