The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5835 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5835-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                           Alberto Garcia     December 25, 2024                     https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : webkit2gtk     CVE ID         : CVE-2024-54479 CVE-2024-54502 CVE-2024-54505 CVE-2024-54508

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

    CVE-2024-54479

        Seunghyun Lee discovered that processing maliciously crafted web         content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

    CVE-2024-54502

        Brendon Tiszka discovered that processing maliciously crafted web         content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

    CVE-2024-54505

        Gary Kwong discovered that processing maliciously crafted web         content may lead to memory corruption.

    CVE-2024-54508

        linjy, chluo and Xiangwei Zhang discovered that processing         maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process         crash.

    For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in     version 2.46.5-1~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-5835 : gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 213390

Version 1.1