DSA-5274-1 wpewebkit -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5274-1 wpewebkit -- security update

Date Reported:

08 Nov 2022

Affected Packages:

wpewebkit

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-42799, CVE-2022-42823, CVE-2022-42824.

More information:

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

• CVE-2022-42799

  Jihwan Kim and Dohyun Lee discovered that visiting a malicious website may lead to user interface spoofing.

• CVE-2022-42823

  Dohyun Lee discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

• CVE-2022-42824

  Abdulrahman Alqabandi, Ryan Shin and Dohyun Lee discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user information.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.38.2-1~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