Fedora 38 : webkitgtk (2024-ca3f071aea)

high Nessus Plugin ID 190387

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-ca3f071aea advisory.

* Fix webkit_web_context_allow_tls_certificate_for_host to handle IPv6 URIs produced by SoupURI.
* Ignore stops with offset zero before last one when rendering gradients with cairo.
* Write bwrapinfo.json to disk for xdg-desktop-portal.
* Fix gamepads detection by correctly handling focused window in GTK4.
* Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
* Fix CVE-2024-23222, CVE-2024-23206, CVE-2024-23213

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-2024-ca3f071aea

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 190387

File Name: fedora_2024-ca3f071aea.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2024

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

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-2024-23222

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: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 2/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-23206, CVE-2024-23213, CVE-2024-23222