The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5804 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5804-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                           Alberto Garcia     November 07, 2024                     https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : webkit2gtk     CVE ID         : CVE-2024-44244 CVE-2024-44296

    The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK     web engine:

    CVE-2024-44244

        An anonymous researcher, Q1IQ (@q1iqF) and P1umer discovered that         processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an         unexpected process crash.

    CVE-2024-44296

        Narendra Bhati discovered that processing maliciously crafted web         content may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced.

    For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in     version 2.46.3-1~deb12u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages.

    For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/webkit2gtk

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian 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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Debian dsa-5804 : gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210545

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