webkit2gtk vulnerabilities

14 September 2016

webkit2gtk vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK+.

Software Description

• webkit2gtk - JavaScript engine library from WebKitGTK+ - GObject introspection

Details

A large number of 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.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

• CVE-2016-1854
• CVE-2016-1856
• CVE-2016-1857
• CVE-2016-1858
• CVE-2016-1859
• CVE-2016-4583
• CVE-2016-4585
• CVE-2016-4586
• CVE-2016-4588
• CVE-2016-4589
• CVE-2016-4590
• CVE-2016-4591
• CVE-2016-4622
• CVE-2016-4623
• CVE-2016-4624
• CVE-2016-4651