RHSA-2024:2982 — Security Advisory

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):

• webkitgtk: use-after-free in the MediaRecorder API of the WebKit GStreamer-based ports (CVE-2023-39928)

• webkitgtk: Arbitrary Remote Code Execution (CVE-2023-42917)

• webkitgtk: processing a malicious image may lead to a denial of service (CVE-2023-42883)

• webkitgtk: processing malicious web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-42890)

• webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-40414)

• webkitgtk: Processing a file may lead to a denial of service or potentially disclose memory contents (CVE-2014-1745)

• webkitgtk: User password may be read aloud by a text-to-speech accessibility feature (CVE-2023-32359)

• webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to a denial of service (CVE-2023-41983)

• webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-42852)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Release Notes linked from the References section.