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Ubuntu 22.10, 22.04 LTS: USN-5867-1 Moderate: WebKitGTK Security Issues

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Uncover solutions for various WebKitGTK vulnerabilities impacting Ubuntu systems. Upgrade now for enhanced protection.
Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK.

Summary

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security advisory moderate denial of service 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 22.10: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.38.4-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0 2.38.4-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-5.0-0 2.38.4-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.38.4-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 2.38.4-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 libwebkit2gtk-5.0-0 2.38.4-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.38.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0 2.38.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.38.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 2.38.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.38.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.38.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 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-5867-1

CVE-2022-42826, CVE-2023-23517, CVE-2023-23518

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February 13, 2023

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

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.38.4-0ubuntu0.22.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.38.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.38.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.2

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