USN-676-1: WebKit vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.10

Packages

• webkit -

Details

It was discovered that WebKit did not properly handle Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS) import statements. If a user were tricked into opening a malicious
website, an attacker could cause a browser crash and possibly execute
arbitrary code with user privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10

• libwebkit-1.0-1 - 1.0.1-2ubuntu0.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications that
use WebKit, such as Epiphany-webkit and Midori, to effect the necessary
changes.

References

• CVE-2008-3632