RHSA-2024:9636 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: webkit2gtk3 security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 14, 2024

Updated · November 4, 2026

Topic

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.

Description

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2024:9636 — Red Hat Security Advisory: webkit2gtk3 security update | PulseLinux