A webkit2gtk3 security update has been released for Fedora 31 to fix a a memory corruption issue that may lead to arbitrary code execution.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-f25793aac4
2020-03-25 01:30:06.353333
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Name : webkit2gtk3
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 2.28.0
Release : 6.fc31
URL : http://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary : GTK Web content engine library
Description :
WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the
GTK platform.
This package contains WebKit2 based WebKitGTK for GTK 3.
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Update Information:
Update to WebKitGTK 2.28.0. * Add API to enable Process Swap on (Cross-site)
Navigation. * Add user messages API for the communication with the web
extension. * Add support for same-site cookies. * Service workers are enabled
by default. * Add support for Pointer Lock API. * Add flatpak sandbox support.
* Make ondemand hardware acceleration policy never leave accelerated compositing
mode. * Always use a light theme for rendering form controls. * Add about:gpu
to show information about the graphics stack. * CVE fixes: CVE-2020-10018
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-6
- BuildRequires: rubygem-json. Not plural. Sigh.
* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-5
- Remove BuildRequires: rubygems-json, should not have been added in F31
* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-4
- Attempt rebuild. Koji seems flaky today?
* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-3
- BuildRequires: rubygems-json
* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-2
- Rebuild with koji hopefully not broken this time?
* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-1
- Update to 2.28.0
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1811722 - CVE-2020-10018 webkit2gtk3: webkitgtk: Denial of service issue in accessibility/AXObjectCache.cpp [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811722
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-f25793aac4' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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