DSA-5527-1 webkit2gtk -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5527-1 webkit2gtk -- security update

Date Reported:

12 Oct 2023

Affected Packages:

webkit2gtk

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2023-39928, CVE-2023-41074, CVE-2023-41993.

More information:

The webkit2gtk update released as 5527-1 introduced a regression that is causing programs such as yelp, liferea or gnucash to stop working in certain cases.

For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 2.42.1-1~deb11u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages.

For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/webkit2gtk