The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5618 advisory.

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5618-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                           Alberto Garcia     February 08, 2024                     https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : webkit2gtk     CVE ID         : CVE-2024-23206 CVE-2024-23213 CVE-2024-23222

    The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK     web engine:

    CVE-2024-23206

        An anonymous researcher discovered that a maliciously crafted         webpage may be able to fingerprint the user.

    CVE-2024-23213

        Wangtaiyu discovered that processing web content may lead to         arbitrary code execution.

    CVE-2024-23222

        Apple discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content         may lead to arbitrary code execution. Apple is aware of a report         that this issue may have been exploited.

    For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed     in version 2.42.5-1~deb11u1.

    For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in     version 2.42.5-1~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

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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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.

Detections

Analytics

Debian dsa-5618 : gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 190343

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.0

Version 1.3 Jan 24, 2025, 11:52 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202501242352
Version 1.2 Feb 14, 2024, 3:36 AM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202402140336
Version 1.0 Feb 9, 2024, 6:03 AM New Plugin Feed: 202402090603