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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5183-1 wpewebkit -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Jul 2022

Affected Packages:

wpewebkit

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-22677, CVE-2022-26710.

More information:

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WPE WebKit web engine:

• CVE-2022-22677

  An anonymous researcher discovered that the video in a webRTC call may be interrupted if the audio capture gets interrupted.

• CVE-2022-26710

  Chijin Zhou discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.36.4-1~deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wpewebkit packages.

For the detailed security status of wpewebkit please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/wpewebkit