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Bug#1069574: marked as done (age-old and insecure webkit package)

Your message dated Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:59:28 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1111522: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #1069574,
regarding age-old and insecure webkit package
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Package: libqt5webkit5

Version: 5.212.0~alpha4-30


Hi,

this was originally a bug report against Ubuntu 24.04 as 2061191, but since the package is community maintained and not by Ubuntu, they asked me to report it "upstreams".


Ubuntu 24.04 beta / Debian bookworm still use libqt5webkit5.

It is not obvious, where it comes from, but the version is still an alpha4, and the link in the README seems to suggest, that it still comes from https://github.com/annulen/webkit, which redirects to https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit , where the alpha4 tag is over 4 years old.

There, the latest README tells:

Code in this repository is obsolete. If you are looking for up-to-date QtWebKit use this fork: https://github.com/movableink/webkit

https://github.com/movableink/webkit seems to be still maintained – more or less. And calls itself "inofficial mirror"

Have a look at

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2022/11/04/stop-using-qtwebkit/

which calls qtwebkit insecure, poorly maintained, and cites CVEs about remote code execution (some of them would have to be fixed in the fork, but probably not in the version here in ubuntu).

The problem is, that tools like wkhtmltopdf do use this library and are typically used to pull contents from a given URL, i.e. from foreign websites.

Processing foreign HTML and _javascript_ code in conjunction with vulnerabilities to remote code execution, this is highly dangerous.


regards

Hadmut



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Version: 5.212.0~alpha4-42+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package qtwebkit-opensource-src has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1111522

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

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