USN-8971-1: GNOME Shell vulnerability

It was discovered that GNOME Shell did not properly validate icon dimensions when processing icons from a remote search provider. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNOME Shell to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or expose sensitive information from memory.

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USN-8975-1: libsoup vulnerabilities

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