SECURITY

USN-3079-1: WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3079-1 14th September, 2016 webkit2gtk vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK+. Software description webkit2gtk – JavaScript engine library from WebKitGTK+ – GObject introspection Details A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK+ Web andJavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a maliciouswebsite, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to webbrowser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of serviceattacks, and arbitrary code execution. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bugfixes. After a standard [ more… ]