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Ubuntu 23.04 & 22.04 LTS USN-6289-1 High Severity WebKitGTK Fixes

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The latest Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6290-1 brings essential patches addressing significant vulnerabilities found in OpenSSL across various Ubuntu 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 high severity cross-site scripting remote execution WebKitGTK Ubuntu 23.04 Ubuntu 22.04

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 23.04:
   libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18     2.40.5-0ubuntu0.23.04.1
   libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0      2.40.5-0ubuntu0.23.04.1
   libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1      2.40.5-0ubuntu0.23.04.1
   libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37            2.40.5-0ubuntu0.23.04.1
   libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0             2.40.5-0ubuntu0.23.04.1
   libwebkitgtk-6.0-4              2.40.5-0ubuntu0.23.04.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18     2.40.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
   libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0      2.40.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
   libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1      2.40.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
   libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37            2.40.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
   libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0             2.40.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
   libwebkitgtk-6.0-4              2.40.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

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-6289-1

CVE-2023-38133, CVE-2023-38572, CVE-2023-38592, CVE-2023-38594,

CVE-2023-38595, CVE-2023-38597, CVE-2023-38599, CVE-2023-38600,

CVE-2023-38611

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6289-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity cross-site scripting remote execution WebKitGTK Ubuntu 23.04 Ubuntu 22.04

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.40.5-0ubuntu0.23.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webkit2gtk/2.40.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.1

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