SUSE SLES12 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2025:0639-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216635

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-2025:0639-1 advisory.

Update to version 2.46.6 (bsc#1236946):

- CVE-2025-24143: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user.
- CVE-2025-24150: Copying a URL from Web Inspector may lead to command injection.
- CVE-2025-24158: Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.
- CVE-2025-24162: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

Already fixed in previous releases:

- CVE-2024-54543: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption.
- CVE-2024-27856: Processing a file may lead to unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution.
- CVE-2024-54658: Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 216635

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0639-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/22/2025

Updated: 2/22/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24150

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/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:webkit2gtk3-devel, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27856, CVE-2024-54543, CVE-2024-54658, CVE-2025-24143, CVE-2025-24150, CVE-2025-24158, CVE-2025-24162

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0639-1

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