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Ubuntu 22.10 USN-5730-1 Moderate: WebKitGTK Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey November 17, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Multiple vulnerabilities addressed in WebKitGTK for Ubuntu distributions. Upgrade immediately to safeguard against potential threats.
Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.10: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.38.2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0 2.38.2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-5.0-0 2.38.2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.38.2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 2.38.2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 libwebkit2gtk-5.0-0 2.38.2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.38.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0 2.38.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.38.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 2.38.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.38.2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.38.2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 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

CVE-2022-32888, CVE-2022-32923, CVE-2022-42799, CVE-2022-42823,

CVE-2022-42824

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November 17, 2022

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.38.2-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.38.2-0ubuntu0.20.04.1

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