The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2982 advisory.

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

    Security Fix(es):

    * webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-40414)

    * webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-42852)

    * webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-23213)

    * webkitgtk: Processing a file may lead to a denial of service or potentially disclose memory contents     (CVE-2014-1745)

    * webkitgtk: User password may be read aloud by a text-to-speech accessibility feature (CVE-2023-32359)

    * webkitgtk: use-after-free in the MediaRecorder API of the WebKit GStreamer-based ports (CVE-2023-39928)

    * webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to a denial of service (CVE-2023-41983)

    * webkitgtk: processing a malicious image may lead to a denial of service (CVE-2023-42883)

    * webkitgtk: processing malicious web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2023-42890)

    * webkitgtk: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user (CVE-2024-23206)

    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.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 Release Notes     linked from 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.

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RHEL 8 : webkit2gtk3 (RHSA-2024:2982)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 197749

Version 1.2

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Version 1.2 Nov 8, 2024, 4:56 PM CISA reference Plugin Feed: 202411081656
Version 1.1 Nov 8, 2024, 5:19 AM CVE (set "CVE" coverage to "CVE-2014-1745,CVE-2023-32359,CVE-2023-39928,CVE-2023-40414,CVE-2023-41983,CVE-2023-42852,CVE-2023-42883,CVE-2023-42890,CVE-2023-42917,CVE-2024-23206,CVE-2024-23213") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True") Exploit attributes ("Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202411080519
Version 1.0 May 23, 2024, 6:06 PM New Plugin Feed: 202405231806