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Fedora 28 : webkit2gtk3 (2019-432b3dff25)

high Nessus Plugin ID 124285

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Rebase to latest stable branch 2.24.

For details see 2.23 and 2.24 release notes :

- https://www.webkitgtk.org/2018/11/22/webkitgtk2.23.1-released.html

- https://www.webkitgtk.org/2019/01/08/webkitgtk2.23.2-released.html

- https://www.webkitgtk.org/2019/01/14/webkitgtk2.23.3-released.html

- https://www.webkitgtk.org/2019/02/14/webkitgtk2.23.90-released.html

- https://www.webkitgtk.org/2019/02/20/webkitgtk2.23.91-released.html

- https://www.webkitgtk.org/2019/03/06/webkitgtk2.23.92-released.html

- https://www.webkitgtk.org/2019/03/13/webkitgtk2.24.0-released.html

- https://www.webkitgtk.org/2019/04/09/webkitgtk2.24.1-released.html

Security fix for CVE-2019-6251

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-2019-432b3dff25

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 124285

File Name: fedora_2019-432b3dff25.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/25/2019

Updated: 5/31/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-6251

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-6251