Debian DSA-5183-1 : wpewebkit - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 163248

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5183 advisory.

The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WPE WebKit web engine: CVE-2022-22677 An anonymous researcher discovered that the video in a webRTC call may be interrupted if the audio capture gets interrupted. CVE-2022-26710 Chijin Zhou discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.36.4-1~deb11u1. We recommend that you upgrade your wpewebkit packages. For the detailed security status of wpewebkit please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security- tracker.debian.org/tracker/wpewebkit

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the wpewebkit packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.36.4-1~deb11u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 163248

File Name: debian_DSA-5183.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 7/15/2022

Updated: 1/24/2025

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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-26710

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwpewebkit-1.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwpewebkit-1.0-3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwpewebkit-1.0-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wpewebkit-driver

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-22677, CVE-2022-26710

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