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Fedora 28 : webkit2gtk3 (2018-509fc4a5c8)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120420

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses the following vulnerability :

 - [CVE-2018-4345](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2018-4345)

This update brings the following changes :

 - Many improvements and fixes for video playback with media source extensions (MSE), which improve the user experience across the board, and in particular for playback of WebM videos.

 - Fix a memory leak during media playback when using playbin3.

 - Fix portions of Web views not being rendered after resizing.

 - Fix Resource Timing reporting for iframe elements.

 - Fix the build with the remote Web Inspector disabled.

 - Fix the build on ARMv7 with NEON extensions.

 - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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 webkit2gtk3 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-509fc4a5c8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120420

File Name: fedora_2018-509fc4a5c8.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 7/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-4345

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkit2gtk3

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/3/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-4345