CVE-2016-4589

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WebKitGTK+ versions prior to 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Description A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK+ Web 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.

Recommendations Update the system to the following package versions: gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2 - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-doc - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-bin - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev - 2.12.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 Run sudo pro fix USN-3079-1 to fix the vulnerability.