Multiple cross-site scripting, denial of service and arbitrary code execution security flaws were discovered in webkit.

Please consult the CVE web links for further information.

The updated packages have been upgraded to the latest version (1.2.7) to correct these issues.

A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKit browser 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.

Please consult the bug listed at the top of this advisory to get the exact list of CVE numbers fixed for each release.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Various bugs in webkit have been fixed. The CVE id's are :

CVE-2009-0945, CVE-2009-1681, CVE-2009-1684, CVE-2009-1685, CVE-2009-1686, CVE-2009-1687, CVE-2009-1688, CVE-2009-1689, CVE-2009-1691, CVE-2009-1690, CVE-2009-1692, CVE-2009-1693, CVE-2009-1694, CVE-2009-1695, CVE-2009-1696, CVE-2009-1697, CVE-2009-1698, CVE-2009-1699, CVE-2009-1700, CVE-2009-1701, CVE-2009-1702, CVE-2009-1703, CVE-2009-1709, CVE-2009-1710, CVE-2009-1711, CVE-2009-1712, CVE-2009-1713, CVE-2009-1714, CVE-2009-1715, CVE-2009-1718, CVE-2009-1724, CVE-2009-1725, CVE-2009-2195, CVE-2009-2199, CVE-2009-2200, CVE-2009-2419, CVE-2009-2797, CVE-2009-2816, CVE-2009-2841, CVE-2009-3272, CVE-2009-3384, CVE-2009-3933, CVE-2009-3934, CVE-2010-0046, CVE-2010-0047, CVE-2010-0048, CVE-2010-0049, CVE-2010-0050, CVE-2010-0052, CVE-2010-0053, CVE-2010-0054, CVE-2010-0315, CVE-2010-0647, CVE-2010-0051, CVE-2010-0650, CVE-2010-0651, CVE-2010-0656, CVE-2010-0659, CVE-2010-0661, CVE-2010-1029, CVE-2010-1126, CVE-2010-1233, CVE-2010-1236, CVE-2010-1386, CVE-2010-1387, CVE-2010-1388, CVE-2010-1389, CVE-2010-1390, CVE-2010-1391, CVE-2010-1392, CVE-2010-1393, CVE-2010-1394, CVE-2010-1395, CVE-2010-1396, CVE-2010-1397, CVE-2010-1398, CVE-2010-1399, CVE-2010-1400, CVE-2010-1401, CVE-2010-1402, CVE-2010-1403, CVE-2010-1404, CVE-2010-1405, CVE-2010-1406, CVE-2010-1407, CVE-2010-1408, CVE-2010-1409, CVE-2010-1410, CVE-2010-1412, CVE-2010-1413, CVE-2010-1414, CVE-2010-1415, CVE-2010-1416, CVE-2010-1417, CVE-2010-1418, CVE-2010-1419, CVE-2010-1421, CVE-2010-1422, CVE-2010-1729, CVE-2010-1749, CVE-2010-1757, CVE-2010-1758, CVE-2010-1759, CVE-2010-1760, CVE-2010-1761, CVE-2010-1762, CVE-2010-1763, CVE-2010-1764, CVE-2010-1766, CVE-2010-1767, CVE-2010-1769, CVE-2010-1770, CVE-2010-1771, CVE-2010-1772, CVE-2010-1773, CVE-2010-1774, CVE-2010-1780, CVE-2010-1781, CVE-2010-1782, CVE-2010-1783, CVE-2010-1784, CVE-2010-1785, CVE-2010-1786, CVE-2010-1787, CVE-2010-1788, CVE-2010-1789, CVE-2010-1790, CVE-2010-1791, CVE-2010-1792, CVE-2010-1793, CVE-2010-1807, CVE-2010-1812, CVE-2010-1813, CVE-2010-1814, CVE-2010-1815, CVE-2010-1822, CVE-2010-1823, CVE-2010-1824, CVE-2010-1825, CVE-2010-2264, CVE-2010-2295, CVE-2010-2297, CVE-2010-2300, CVE-2010-2301, CVE-2010-2302, CVE-2010-2441, CVE-2010-3116, CVE-2010-3257, CVE-2010-3259, CVE-2010-3312, CVE-2010-3803, CVE-2010-3804, CVE-2010-3805, CVE-2010-3808, CVE-2010-3809, CVE-2010-3810, CVE-2010-3811, CVE-2010-3812, CVE-2010-3813, CVE-2010-3816, CVE-2010-3817, CVE-2010-3818, CVE-2010-3819, CVE-2010-3820, CVE-2010-3821, CVE-2010-3822, CVE-2010-3823, CVE-2010-3824, CVE-2010-3826, CVE-2010-3829, CVE-2010-3900, CVE-2010-4040

Gustavo Noronha reports :

Debian's Michael Gilbert has done a great job going through all CVEs released about WebKit, and including patches in the Debian package.
1.2.3 includes all of the commits from trunk to fix those, too.

The libwebkit browser engine version 1.2.3 fixes several security relevant bugs

(CVE-2010-1386, CVE-2010-1392, CVE-2010-1405, CVE-2010-1407, CVE-2010-1416, CVE-2010-1417, CVE-2010-1665, CVE-2010-1418, CVE-2010-1421, CVE-2010-1422, CVE-2010-1501, CVE-2010-1767, CVE-2010-1664, CVE-2010-1758, CVE-2010-1759, CVE-2010-1760, CVE-2010-1761, CVE-2010-1762, CVE-2010-1770, CVE-2010-1771, CVE-2010-1772, CVE-2010-1773, CVE-2010-1774)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
52523	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : webkit (MDVSA-2011:039)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	3/3/2011	1/6/2021	critical
50046	Ubuntu 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : webkit vulnerabilities (USN-1006-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	10/20/2010	9/19/2019	critical
75629	openSUSE Security Update : libwebkit (openSUSE-SU-2011:0024-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/13/2014	1/14/2021	critical
47751	FreeBSD : webkit-gtk2 -- Multiple vulnerabilities (19419b3b-92bd-11df-b140-0015f2db7bde)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	7/19/2010	1/6/2021	critical
75627	openSUSE Security Update : libwebkit (openSUSE-SU-2010:0458-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/13/2014	1/14/2021	critical
53764	openSUSE Security Update : libwebkit (openSUSE-SU-2011:0024-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	5/5/2011	1/14/2021	critical

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