Secure Your Fedora 39 with WebKitGTK Update Addressing CVE-2024-27834
Summary
WebKitGTK is the port of the WebKit web rendering engine to the
GTK platform.
Update Information:
Update to 2.44.2: Make gamepads visible on axis movements, and not only on button presses. Disable the gst-libav AAC decoder. Make user scripts and style sheets visible in the Web Inspector. Use the geolocation portal where available, with the existing geoclue as fallback if the portal is not usable. Use the printing portal when running sandboxed. Use the file transfer portal for drag and drop when running sandboxed. Avoid notifying an empty cursor rectangle to input methods. Remove empty bar shown in detached inspector windows. Consider keycode when activating application accelerators. Fix several crashes and rendering issues. Fix CVE-2024-27834
Change Log
* Sat Jun 8 2024 Michael Catanzaro
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2282414 - CVE-2024-27834 webkitgtk: webkit: pointer authentication bypass [fedora-39]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282414
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-826bf5a09a' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label