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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2024:2905-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 205565

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2905-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-40776: Fixed a use-after-free issue with improved memory management (bsc#1228613).
 - CVE-2024-40779: Fixed a out-of-bounds read with improved bounds checking (bsc#1228693).
 - CVE-2024-40780: Fixed another out-of-bounds read with improved bounds checking (bsc#1228694).
 - CVE-2024-40782: Fixed a second use-after-free issue with improved memory management (bsc#1228695).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228613

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228693

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228694

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228695

http://www.nessus.org/u?21ebb7fe

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40776

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40779

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40780

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40782

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 205565

File Name: suse_SU-2024-2905-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/15/2024

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-40782

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:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk4-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit2-4_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit-6_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit2-4_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkitgtk-6_0-injected-bundles, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkitgtk-6_0-4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-javascriptcore-4_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit2webextension-4_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk-4_1-injected-bundles, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk3-soup2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk3-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-6_0-1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkitgtk-4.0-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4_1-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkitwebprocessextension-6_0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_1-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit2webextension-4_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-javascriptcore-6_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkitgtk-4.1-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkitgtk-6.0-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-javascriptcore-4_0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-40776, CVE-2024-40779, CVE-2024-40780, CVE-2024-40782

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:2905-1