PT-2016-6046 · Webkitgtk+1 · Webkitgtk+1

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Published

2016-07-21

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Updated

2019-03-25

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CVE-2016-4589

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WebKitGTK+ versions prior to 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Description 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.
Recommendations Update the system to the following package versions: gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2 - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-doc - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-bin - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Run sudo pro fix USN-3079-1 to fix the vulnerability.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

DoS

Buffer Overflow

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-4589
USN-3079-1

Affected Products

Ubuntu
Webkitgtk