QID 671119

Date Published: 2021-11-29

QID 671119: EulerOS Security Update for webkitgtk4 (EulerOS-SA-2019-2197)

Webkitgtk+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine webkit to the gtk+ platform.
This package contains webkitgtk+ for gtk+ 3.
Security fix(es): webkitgtk and wpe webkit prior to version 2.24.1 are vulnerable to address bar spoofing upon certain javascript redirections.
An attacker could cause malicious web content to be displayed as if for a trusted uri.
This is similar to the cve-2018-8383 issue in microsoft edge.(cve-2019-6251)

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An arbitrary attacker may exploit this vulnerability to compromise the system.

CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.1 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.8 severity.

Solution

The Vendor has released a security update to fix the vulnerability. For more information please visit EulerOS-SA-2019-2197 for updates and patch information

Vendor References

EulerOS-SA-2019-2197 - developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-2197

CVEs related to QID 671119

CVE-2019-6251 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
EulerOS-SA-2019-2197	EulerOS V2.0SP5		developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-2197

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