RHSA-2024:2126 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for webkit2gtk3 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform.

Security Fix(es):

• webkitgtk: use-after-free in the MediaRecorder API of the WebKit GStreamer-based ports (CVE-2023-39928)
• webkitgtk: Arbitrary Remote Code Execution (CVE-2023-42917)
• webkitgtk: processing a malicious image may lead to a denial of service (CVE-2023-42883)
• webkitgtk: processing malicious web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-42890)
• webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-40414)
• webkitgtk: Processing a file may lead to a denial of service or potentially disclose memory contents (CVE-2014-1745)
• webkitgtk: User password may be read aloud by a text-to-speech accessibility feature (CVE-2023-32359)
• webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to a denial of service (CVE-2023-41983)
• webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-42852)
• webkitgtk: A malicious website may cause unexpected cross-origin behavior (CVE-2024-23271)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.4 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2241400 - CVE-2023-39928 webkitgtk: use-after-free in the MediaRecorder API of the WebKit GStreamer-based ports
• BZ - 2253058 - CVE-2023-42917 webkitgtk: Arbitrary Remote Code Execution
• BZ - 2254326 - CVE-2023-42883 webkitgtk: processing a malicious image may lead to a denial of service
• BZ - 2254327 - CVE-2023-42890 webkitgtk: processing malicious web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
• BZ - 2270143 - CVE-2023-40414 webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
• BZ - 2270151 - CVE-2014-1745 webkitgtk: Processing a file may lead to a denial of service or potentially disclose memory contents
• BZ - 2271449 - CVE-2023-32359 webkitgtk: User password may be read aloud by a text-to-speech accessibility feature
• BZ - 2271453 - CVE-2023-41983 webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to a denial of service
• BZ - 2271456 - CVE-2023-42852 webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
• BZ - 2314696 - CVE-2024-23271 webkitgtk: A malicious website may cause unexpected cross-origin behavior
• RHEL-3960 - Upgrade WebKitGTK for RHEL 9.4

CVEs

• CVE-2014-1745
• CVE-2023-32359
• CVE-2023-39928
• CVE-2023-40414
• CVE-2023-41983
• CVE-2023-42852
• CVE-2023-42883
• CVE-2023-42890
• CVE-2023-42917
• CVE-2024-23271

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.4_release_notes/index