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Fedora 38 : webkitgtk (2024-f1ae7b7ac5)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192748

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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-f1ae7b7ac5 advisory.

 Upgrade to 2.44.0:

 * Make the DOM accessibility tree reachable from UI process with GTK4.
 * Removed the X11 and WPE renderers in favor of DMA-BUF.
 * Improved vblank synchronization when rendering.
 * Removed key event reinjection in GTK4 to make keyboard shortcuts work in web sites.
 * Fix gamepads detection by correctly handling focused window in GTK4.
 * CVE-2024-23263, CVE-2024-23280, CVE-2024-23284

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-f1ae7b7ac5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192748

File Name: fedora_2024-f1ae7b7ac5.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/1/2024

Updated: 12/10/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-23284

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-23263, CVE-2024-23280, CVE-2024-23284