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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libQtWebKit4 (SUSE-SU-2025:0139-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 214359

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:0139-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2024-40779: Fixed heap buffer overflow in computeSampleUsingLinearInterpolation (bsc#1228693)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libQtWebKit-devel, libQtWebKit4 and / or libQtWebKit4-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1228693

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40779

http://www.nessus.org/u?c7f5ae6b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 214359

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0139-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/18/2025

Updated: 1/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-40779

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqtwebkit4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqtwebkit-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libqtwebkit4-32bit

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-40779

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0139-1