SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2018:2075-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120064

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for webkit2gtk3 to version 2.20.3 fixes the following issues: These security issues were fixed :

- CVE-2018-4190: An unspecified issue allowed remote attackers to obtain sensitive credential information that is transmitted during a CSS mask-image fetch (bsc#1097693).

- CVE-2018-4199: An unspecified issue allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) via a crafted website (bsc#1097693)

- CVE-2018-4218: An unspecified issue allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted website that triggers an @generatorState use-after-free (bsc#1097693)

- CVE-2018-4222: An unspecified issue allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted website that leverages a getWasmBufferFromValue out-of-bounds read during WebAssembly compilation (bsc#1097693)

- CVE-2018-4232: An unspecified issue allowed remote attackers to overwrite cookies via a crafted website (bsc#1097693)

- CVE-2018-4233: An unspecified issue allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted website (bsc#1097693)

- CVE-2018-11646: webkitFaviconDatabaseSetIconForPageURL and webkitFaviconDatabaseSetIconURLForPageURL mishandle an unset pageURL, leading to an application crash (bsc#1095611).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-2018-1401=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-1401=1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120064

File Name: suse_SU-2018-2075-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/2/2019

Updated: 7/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-4233

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk3-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-javascriptcore, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk3-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit2webextension

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/1/2018

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Safari Proxy Object Type Confusion)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-11646, CVE-2018-4190, CVE-2018-4199, CVE-2018-4218, CVE-2018-4222, CVE-2018-4232, CVE-2018-4233

Detections

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