[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: webkitgtk4-2.10.9-1.fc23

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-7eb48a78dc
2016-03-22 15:54:44.506458
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Name        : webkitgtk4
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 2.10.9
Release     : 1.fc23
URL         : http://www.webkitgtk.org/
Summary     : GTK+ Web content engine library
Description :
WebKitGTK+ is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the
GTK+ platform.

This package contains WebKitGTK+ for GTK+ 3.

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Update Information:

This update together with the previous release brings the following fixes  *
Security fixes: CVE-2016-1726 * Limit the number of tiles according to the
visible area. This was causing a huge memory consumption with some websites. *
Fix rendering of form controls and scrollbars with GTK+ >= 3.19. * Fix HTTP
authentication dialog rendering when accelerated compositing mode is enabled. *
Fix rendering artifacts when using a web view background color. * Fix a crash
when creating a WebKitWebView without providing a WebKitWebContext. * Fix the
build with musl libc library. * Fix the build with clang-3.8. * Fix several
crashes and rendering issues.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update webkitgtk4' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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