DSA-5340-1 webkit2gtk -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5340-1 webkit2gtk -- security update

Date Reported:

06 Feb 2023

Affected Packages:

webkit2gtk

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-42826, CVE-2023-23517, CVE-2023-23518.

More information:

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine:

• CVE-2022-42826

  Francisco Alonso discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

• CVE-2023-23517

  YeongHyeon Choi, Hyeon Park, SeOk JEON, YoungSung Ahn, JunSeo Bae and Dohyun Lee discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

• CVE-2023-23518

  YeongHyeon Choi, Hyeon Park, SeOk JEON, YoungSung Ahn, JunSeo Bae and Dohyun Lee discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.38.4-2~deb11u1.

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