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Fedora 26 : webkitgtk4 (2017-0ad0e2f390)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105705

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses the following vulnerabilities :

 - [CVE-2017-13866](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.c gi?name=CVE-2017-13866), [CVE-2017-13870](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.c gi?name=CVE-2017-13870), [CVE-2017-7156](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2017-7156), [CVE-2017-13856](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.c gi?name=CVE-2017-13856)

Additional fixes :

 - Make WebDriver implementation more spec compliant.

 - Fix a bug when trying to remove cookies before a web process is spawned.

 - WebKitWebDriver process no longer links to libjavascriptcoregtk.

 - Fix several memory leaks in GStreamer media backend.

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 webkitgtk4 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-0ad0e2f390

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105705

File Name: fedora_2017-0ad0e2f390.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/10/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk4, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/25/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-13856, CVE-2017-13866, CVE-2017-13870, CVE-2017-7156