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Fedora 37 : webkitgtk (2023-5210df1dd1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 171243

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-5210df1dd1 advisory.

 * Improve GStreamer multimedia playback across the board with improved codec selection logic, better handling of latency, and improving frame discard to avoid audio/video desynchronization, among other fixes.
 * Disable HLS media playback by default, which makes web sites use MSE instead. If needed WEBKIT_GST_ENABLE_HLS_SUPPORT=1 can be set in the environment to enable it back.
 * Disable threaded rendering in GTK4 builds by default, as it was causing crashes.
 * Fix MediaSession API not showing artwork images.
 * Fix MediaSession MPRIS usage when running inside a Flatpak sandbox.
 * Fix input element controls to correctly scale when applying a zoom factor different than the default.
 * Fix leakage of Web processes in certain situations.
 * Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
 * Security fixes: CVE-2023-23517, CVE-2023-23518, CVE-2022-42826, and many additional security issues

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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

Update the affected webkitgtk package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-5210df1dd1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171243

File Name: fedora_2023-5210df1dd1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/9/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2023-23518

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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:37

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/4/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-42826, CVE-2023-23517, CVE-2023-23518