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Debian DSA-5468-1 : webkit2gtk - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 179393

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5468 advisory.

 The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK web engine: CVE-2023-38133 YeongHyeon Choi discovered that processing web content may disclose sensitive information. CVE-2023-38572 Narendra Bhati discovered that a website may be able to bypass the Same Origin Policy. CVE-2023-38592 Narendra Bhati, Valentino Dalla Valle, Pedro Bernardo, Marco Squarcina, and Lorenzo Veronese discovered that processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2023-38594 Yuhao Hu discovered that processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2023-38595 An anonymous researcher, Jiming Wang, and Jikai Ren discovered that processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.
 CVE-2023-38597 Junsung Lee discovered that processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.
 CVE-2023-38599 Hritvik Taneja, Jason Kim, Jie Jeff Xu, Stephan van Schaik, Daniel Genkin, and Yuval Yarom discovered that a website may be able to track sensitive user information. CVE-2023-38600 An anonymous researcher discovered that processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2023-38611 Francisco Alonso discovered that processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.40.5-1~deb11u1. For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 2.40.5-1~deb12u1. We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages. For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/webkit2gtk

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 webkit2gtk packages.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 2.40.5-1~deb12u1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/webkit2gtk

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5468

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38133

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38572

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38592

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38594

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38595

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38597

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38599

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38600

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38611

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/webkit2gtk

https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/webkit2gtk

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 179393

File Name: debian_DSA-5468.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/7/2023

Updated: 1/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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-2023-38611

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:libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-webkit2-4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:webkit2gtk-driver, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-webkit-6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.0-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-webkit2-4.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkitgtk-6.0-4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38133, CVE-2023-38572, CVE-2023-38592, CVE-2023-38594, CVE-2023-38595, CVE-2023-38597, CVE-2023-38599, CVE-2023-38600, CVE-2023-38611