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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4641-1 webkit2gtk -- security update

Date Reported:

16 Mar 2020

Affected Packages:

webkit2gtk

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-10018.

More information:

The following vulnerability has been discovered in the webkit2gtk web engine:

• CVE-2020-10018

  Sudhakar Verma, Ashfaq Ansari and Siddhant Badhe discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 2.26.4-1~deb10u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages.

For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/webkit2gtk