Debian dsa-5899 : gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 234140

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5899 advisory.

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5899-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Alberto Garcia April 10, 2025 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : webkit2gtk CVE ID : CVE-2024-54551 CVE-2025-24208 CVE-2025-24209 CVE-2025-24213 CVE-2025-24216 CVE-2025-24264 CVE-2025-30427

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

CVE-2024-54551

ajajfxhj discovered that processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.

CVE-2025-24208

Muhammad Zaid Ghifari and Kalimantan Utara discovered that loading a malicious iframe may lead to a cross-site scripting attack.

CVE-2025-24209

Francisco Alonso and an anonymous researcher discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

CVE-2025-24213

The Google V8 Security Team discovered that a type confusion issue could lead to memory corruption. Note that this CVE is fixed only on ARM architectures. x86_64 is not vulnerable, x86 is not vulnerable when the SSE2 instruction set is enabled; but other architectures remain vulnerable.

CVE-2025-24216

Paul Bakker discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash.

CVE-2025-24264

Gary Kwong and an anonymous researcher discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected crash.

CVE-2025-30427

rheza discovered that processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected crash.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 2.48.1-2~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: [email protected]

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.

Solution

Upgrade the gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 234140

File Name: debian_DSA-5899.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/10/2025

Updated: 4/10/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

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-2025-30427

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24264

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-webkit2-4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:webkit2gtk-driver, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-webkit-6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.0-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-webkit2-4.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwebkitgtk-6.0-4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-dev

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-54551, CVE-2025-24208, CVE-2025-24209, CVE-2025-24213, CVE-2025-24216, CVE-2025-24264, CVE-2025-30427

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