DSA-5211-1 wpewebkit -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5211-1 wpewebkit -- security update

Date Reported:

16 Aug 2022

Affected Packages:

wpewebkit

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-32792, CVE-2022-32816.

More information:

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WPE WebKit web engine:

• CVE-2022-32792

  Manfred Paul discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

• CVE-2022-32816

  Dohyun Lee discovered that visiting a website that frames malicious content may lead to UI spoofing.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.36.6-1~deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wpewebkit packages.

For the detailed security status of wpewebkit please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/wpewebkit