USN-3889-1: WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities<\/p>\n
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n
Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK+.<\/p>\n
A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK+ Web
\nand JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious
\nwebsite, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web
\nbrowser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service
\nattacks, and arbitrary code execution.<\/p>\n
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:<\/p>\n
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades<\/a>.<\/p>\n This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug Source: USN-3889-1: WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USN-3889-1: WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities webkit2gtk vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in WebKitGTK+. Software Description webkit2gtk – Web content engine library for GTK+ Details A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK+ Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 – 2.22.6-0ubuntu0.18.10.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 – 2.22.6-0ubuntu0.18.10.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 – 2.22.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 – 2.22.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Security\/Upgrades. This update uses a new upstream release, [ more… ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-29345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu-usn","tag-ubuntu-usn"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29346,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29345\/revisions\/29346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jirak.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfixes. After a standard system update you need to restart any applications
\nthat use WebKitGTK+, such as Epiphany, to make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\nReferences<\/h2>\n
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