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Fedora 39 : webkitgtk (2024-ba78b27eb8)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 206080

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-ba78b27eb8 advisory.

 * Fix web process cache suspend/resume when sandbox is enabled.
 * Fix accelerated images disappearing after scrolling.
 * Fix video flickering with DMA-BUF sink.
 * Fix pointer lock on X11.
 * Fix movement delta on mouse events in GTK3.
 * Undeprecate console message API and make it available in 2022 API.
 * Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

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-ba78b27eb8

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 206080

File Name: fedora_2024-ba78b27eb8.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/21/2024

Updated: 8/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-40776

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-40780

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-40776, CVE-2024-40779, CVE-2024-40780, CVE-2024-40782, CVE-2024-40789