USN-3200-1

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / webkit2gtk

Package

Name: webkit2gtk
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/webkit2gtk@2.14.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.14.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.8.5+dfsg1-3

2.10.3+dfsg1-1

2.10.4+dfsg1-1

2.10.5-1

2.10.6-1

2.10.6-1ubuntu1

2.10.8-1ubuntu1

2.10.9-1ubuntu1

2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

2.14.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

2.14.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0",
            "binary_version": "2.14.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-webkit2-4.0",
            "binary_version": "2.14.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18",
            "binary_version": "2.14.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-bin",
            "binary_version": "2.14.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.14.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37",
            "binary_version": "2.14.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2",
            "binary_version": "2.14.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.14.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1"
        }
    ]
}