SUSE SLES12 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2024:4293-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 213017

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:4293-1 advisory.

- CVE-2024-44308: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content that may lead to arbitrary code execution (bsc#1233631)
- CVE-2024-44309: Fixed data isolation bypass vulnerability (bsc#1233632)

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/1233631

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1233632

http://www.nessus.org/u?b28bde9b

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-44308

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-44309

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 213017

File Name: suse_SU-2024-4293-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2024

Updated: 12/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-44308

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, 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:libwebkit2gtk3-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit2webextension-4_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles, 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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/31/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 12/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-44308, CVE-2024-44309

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:4293-1