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A webkitgtk security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: webkitgtk-2.40.2-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-9e75e38b47
2023-06-03 02:42:54.801348
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Name : webkitgtk
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 2.40.2
Release : 1.fc38
URL : https://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary : GTK web content engine library
Description :
WebKitGTK is the port of the WebKit web rendering engine to the
GTK platform.

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Update Information:

* Fix scrollbar jumping to top when drag released outside window in GTK 4. *
Fix video rendering when GL is disabled. * Fix flickering on looped videos when
starting again. * Fix CPU usage on autoplaying videos. * Choose amount of
painting threads depending on available CPU cores on GTK 4. * Fix several
crashes and rendering issues. * Fix CVE-2023-28204 and CVE-2023-32373.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May 30 2023 Michael Catanzaro [mcatanzaro@redhat.com] - 2.40.2-1
- Update to 2.40.2
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2209229 - CVE-2023-28204 webkitgtk: an out-of-bounds read when processing malicious content [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209229
[ 2 ] Bug #2209755 - [CISA Major Incident] CVE-2023-32373 webkitgtk: a use-after-free when processing maliciously crafted web content [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209755
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-9e75e38b47' 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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