Fedora 40 : webkitgtk (2024-4d940908db)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 211476

Language:

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-4d940908db advisory.

Update to WebKitGTK 2.46.3:

* Flatten layers to a plane when preseve-3d style is set.
* Fix DuckDuckGo links by adding a user agent quirk.
* Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
* Fixes: CVE-2024-44244, CVE-2024-44296

Changes from WebKitGTK 2.46.2:

* Own well-known bus name on a11y bus.
* Improve memory consumption when putImageData is used repeatedly on accelerated canvas.
* Disable cached web process suspension for now to prevent leaks.
* Improve text kerning with different combinations of antialias and hinting settings.
* Destroy all network sessions on process exit.
* Fix visible rectangle calculation when there are animations.
* Fix the build with ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS=OFF.
* 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-2024-4d940908db

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 211476

File Name: fedora_2024-4d940908db.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/16/2024

Updated: 11/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-44296

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-44244, CVE-2024-44296