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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: webkit2gtk3 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:8180-03
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8180
Issue date: 2024-10-16
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-23271
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Summary:

An update for webkit2gtk3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support.

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):

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Use after free may lead to Remote Code Execution (CVE-2024-40776)

* 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)

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.

Solution:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

CVEs:

CVE-2024-23271

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2301841
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302067
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302069
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302070
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302071
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2312724
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314696
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314698
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314702
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314704
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314706