RHEL 9 : webkit2gtk3 (RHSA-2023:4201)

high Nessus Plugin ID 178438

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for webkit2gtk3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4201 advisory.

WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform.

Security Fix(es):

* webkitgtk: memory corruption issue leading to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-32435)

* webkitgtk: type confusion issue leading to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-32439)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL webkit2gtk3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:4201.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?afec4467

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4201

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218626

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218640

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 178438

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4201.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2023

Updated: 11/8/2024

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: 8.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27833

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: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-devel

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/21/2023

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 7/14/2023, 8/3/2023, 10/16/2023, 12/25/2023, 2/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-32885, CVE-2023-28198, CVE-2023-32435, CVE-2023-32439, CVE-2023-35074, CVE-2023-37450, CVE-2023-38594, CVE-2023-38595, CVE-2023-41074, CVE-2023-41993, CVE-2023-42916, CVE-2024-23222, CVE-2024-23252, CVE-2024-27808, CVE-2024-27833, CVE-2024-27834

CWE: 119, 125, 20, 288, 416, 843, 94

RHSA: 2023:4201