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A webkitgtk security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: webkitgtk-2.42.1-1.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-e2c2896d16
2023-09-30 03:34:08.918345
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Name : webkitgtk
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 2.42.1
Release : 1.fc38
URL : https://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary : GTK web content engine library
Description :
WebKitGTK is the port of the WebKit web rendering engine to the
GTK platform.

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Update Information:

* Fix enable-html5-database setting to properly enable/disable IndexedDB API.
* Fix the build with GBM disabled. * Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
* Security fixes: CVE-2023-41993
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Sep 27 2023 Michael Catanzaro [mcatanzaro@redhat.com] - 2.42.1-1
- Update to 2.40.1 and fix GL dependencies
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2240428 - [abrt] webkit2gtk4.1: get_dlopen_handle(): WebKitWebProcess killed by SIGABRT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240428
[ 2 ] Bug #2240526 - CVE-2023-41993 webkitgtk: processing malicious web content may lead to arbitrary code execution [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240526
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-e2c2896d16' 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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