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Red Hat alert RHSA-2024:9636-01 (webkit2gtk3)

An update for webkit2gtk3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK
platform.

Security Fix(es):

* chromium-browser: Use after free in ANGLE (CVE-2024-4558)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead
to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-40789)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved
bounds checking (CVE-2024-40780)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved
bounds checking (CVE-2024-40779)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Use-after-free was addressed with improved memory
management (CVE-2024-40782)

* webkitgtk: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing
(CVE-2024-40866)

* webkitgtk: A malicious website may cause unexpected cross-origin behavior
(CVE-2024-23271)

* webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
(CVE-2024-27820)

* webkitgtk: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the
user (CVE-2024-27838)

* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary
code execution (CVE-2024-27851)

* webkitgtk: A malicious website may exfiltrate data cross-origin
(CVE-2024-44187)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead
to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-44185)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead
to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-44244)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may
prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced (CVE-2024-44296)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

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Original: https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_9636.json


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