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Debian: Security Advisory for webkit2gtk (DSA-4627-1)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

4 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'webkit2gtk' package(s) announced via the DSA-4627-1 advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the webkit2gtk web engine: CVE-2020-3862 Srikanth Gatta discovered that a malicious website may be able to cause a denial of service. CVE-2020-3864 Ryan Pickren discovered that a DOM object context may not have had a unique security origin. CVE-2020-3865 Ryan Pickren discovered that a top-level DOM object context may have incorrectly been considered secure. CVE-2020-3867 An anonymous researcher discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to universal cross site scripting. CVE-2020-3868 Marcin Towalski discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected Software

Affected Software

'webkit2gtk' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 2.26.4-1~deb10u1. We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)