RHEL 8 : webkit2gtk3 (RHSA-2024:9636)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 232632

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for webkit2gtk3.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:9636 advisory.

WebKitGTK is the port of the portable web rendering engine WebKit to the GTK platform.

Security Fix(es):

* chromium-browser: Use after free in ANGLE (CVE-2024-4558)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-40789)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking (CVE-2024-40780)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Out-of-bounds read was addressed with improved bounds checking (CVE-2024-40779)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Use-after-free was addressed with improved memory management (CVE-2024-40782)

* webkitgtk: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing (CVE-2024-40866)

* webkitgtk: A malicious website may cause unexpected cross-origin behavior (CVE-2024-23271)

* webkitgtk: Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-27820)

* webkitgtk: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user (CVE-2024-27838)

* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2024-27851)

* webkitgtk: A malicious website may exfiltrate data cross-origin (CVE-2024-44187)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-44185)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2024-44244)

* webkitgtk: webkit2gtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced (CVE-2024-44296)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL webkit2gtk3 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:9636.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 232632

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9636.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/11/2025

Updated: 3/11/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-54534

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-23271, CVE-2024-27820, CVE-2024-27838, CVE-2024-27851, CVE-2024-40779, CVE-2024-40780, CVE-2024-40782, CVE-2024-40789, CVE-2024-40866, CVE-2024-44185, CVE-2024-44187, CVE-2024-44244, CVE-2024-44296, CVE-2024-4558, CVE-2024-54534

CWE: 119, 125, 200, 358, 416, 787, 788, 942

RHSA: 2024:9636

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