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Fedora 25 : qt5-qtwebengine (2017-a7a488d8d0)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101779

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update updates QtWebEngine to the 5.9.1 release, a security and bugfix release from the 5.9 branch. QtWebEngine 5.9.1 is part of the Qt 5.9.1 release, but only the QtWebEngine component is included in this update.

The update fixes the following security issues in QtWebEngine 5.9.0:
CVE-2017-5070, CVE-2017-5071, CVE-2017-5075, CVE-2017-5076, CVE-2017-5077, CVE-2017-5078, CVE-2017-5079, CVE-2017-5083, CVE-2017-5088, and CVE-2017-5089 (security fixes from Chromium up to version 59.0.3071.104).

Other notable bugfixes include :

 - [QTBUG-59690] Fixed issue with drops

 - [QTBUG-60588] Fixed error in updating user-agent and accept-language

 - [QTBUG-61047] Fixed assert in URLRequestContextGetterQt

 - [QTBUG-61186] Fixed cancellation of upload folder dialogs

 - [QTBUG-57675] Fixed WebEngineNewViewRequest::requestedUrl when opening window from JavaScript

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected qt5-qtwebengine package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-a7a488d8d0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101779

File Name: fedora_2017-a7a488d8d0.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2017

Updated: 6/8/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:qt5-qtwebengine

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2017

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/22/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5070, CVE-2017-5071, CVE-2017-5075, CVE-2017-5076, CVE-2017-5077, CVE-2017-5078, CVE-2017-5079, CVE-2017-5083, CVE-2017-5088, CVE-2017-5089