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A webkit2gtk3 security update has been released for Fedora 30.



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-f3fa778924
2020-03-20 01:39:24.067235
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Name : webkit2gtk3
Product : Fedora 30
Version : 2.28.0
Release : 5.fc30
URL :   http://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary : GTK Web content engine library
Description :
WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the
GTK platform.

This package contains WebKit2 based WebKitGTK for GTK 3.

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Update Information:

Update to WebKitGTK 2.28.0. * Add API to enable Process Swap on (Cross-site)
Navigation. * Add user messages API for the communication with the web
extension. * Add support for same-site cookies. * Service workers are enabled
by default. * Add support for Pointer Lock API. * Add flatpak sandbox support.
* Make ondemand hardware acceleration policy never leave accelerated compositing
mode. * Always use a light theme for rendering form controls. * Add about:gpu
to show information about the graphics stack. * CVE fixes: CVE-2020-10018
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-5
- BuildRequires: rubygem-json. Not plural. Sigh.
* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-4
- Remove BuildRequires: rubygems-json, should not have been added in F31
* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-3
- BuildRequires: rubygems-json
- Refresh webkit-process.patch
* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-2
- Rebuild with koji hopefully not broken this time?
* Wed Mar 11 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.28.0-1
- Update to 2.28.0
* Fri Feb 14 2020 Michael Catanzaro - 2.26.4-1
- Update to 2.26.4
- Add GPG verification of tarball
* Thu Jan 23 2020 Eike Rathke - 2.26.3-1
- Update to 2.26.3
* Fri Nov 8 2019 Eike Rathke - 2.26.2-1
- Update to 2.26.2
* Mon Oct 28 2019 Michael Catanzaro - 2.26.1-3
- Disable broken WPE renderer
* Wed Oct 23 2019 Eike Rathke - 2.26.1-2
- Rebase to 2.26.1
* Wed Aug 28 2019 Tomas Popela - 2.24.4-1
- Update to 2.24.4
* Tue Jul 2 2019 Tomas Popela - 2.24.3-1
- Update to 2.24.3
* Fri May 17 2019 Eike Rathke - 2.24.2-1
- Update to 2.24.2
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1811722 - CVE-2020-10018 webkit2gtk3: webkitgtk: Denial of service issue in accessibility/AXObjectCache.cpp [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1811722
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-f3fa778924' 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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