RHSA-2024:9679 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: webkit2gtk3 security update
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 15, 2024
Updated · November 1, 2026
Topic
An update for webkit2gtk3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions.
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):
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webkitgtk: Memory corruption issue when processing web content (CVE-2022-32885)
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webkitgtk: arbitrary javascript code execution (CVE-2023-40397)
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webkitgtk: Arbitrary Remote Code Execution (CVE-2023-42917)
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webkitgtk: type confusion may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-23222)
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webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-42852)
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chromium-browser: Use after free in ANGLE (CVE-2024-4558)
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webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Use after free may lead to Remote Code Execution (CVE-2024-40776)
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webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-40789)
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webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking (CVE-2024-40780)
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webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking (CVE-2024-40779)
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webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Use-after-free was addressed with improved memory management (CVE-2024-40782)
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webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-27808)
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webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-27820)
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webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-27833)
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webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-27851)
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webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-44185)
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webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-44244)
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.