The version of webkitgtk4 installed on the remote host is prior to 2.42.5-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2623 advisory.

    A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.7.9     and iPadOS 16.7.9, Safari 17.6, iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6, tvOS 17.6, visionOS 1.3, macOS     Sonoma 14.6. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.
    (CVE-2024-40776)

    An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.7.9 and     iPadOS 16.7.9, Safari 17.6, iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6, tvOS 17.6, visionOS 1.3, macOS Sonoma     14.6. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash. (CVE-2024-40779)

    An out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.7.9 and     iPadOS 16.7.9, Safari 17.6, iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6, tvOS 17.6, visionOS 1.3, macOS Sonoma     14.6. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash. (CVE-2024-40780)

    An out-of-bounds access issue was addressed with improved bounds checking. This issue is fixed in iOS     16.7.9 and iPadOS 16.7.9, Safari 17.6, iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6, watchOS 10.6, tvOS 17.6, visionOS 1.3,     macOS Sonoma 14.6. Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.
    (CVE-2024-40789)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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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Amazon Linux 2 : webkitgtk4 (ALAS-2024-2623)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 206018

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.2 Aug 26, 2024, 7:09 AM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" set to 7.8) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" set to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 6.5) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2024-40776" to "CVE-2024-40789") CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2024-40789, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") CVSSv3 score source (changed from "CVE-2024-40780" to none) Plugin Feed: 202408260709
Version 1.1 Aug 21, 2024, 2:38 PM New Plugin Feed: 202408211438