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Fedora 22 : webkitgtk4-2.10.9-1.fc22 (2016-68b43a4e0d)

high Nessus Plugin ID 90214

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update together with the previous release brings the following fixes * Security fixes: CVE-2016-1726 * Limit the number of tiles according to the visible area. This was causing a huge memory consumption with some websites. * Fix rendering of form controls and scrollbars with GTK+ >= 3.19. * Fix HTTP authentication dialog rendering when accelerated compositing mode is enabled. * Fix rendering artifacts when using a web view background color. * Fix a crash when creating a WebKitWebView without providing a WebKitWebContext. * Fix the build with musl libc library. * Fix the build with clang-3.8. * Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected webkitgtk4 package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b16b4881

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90214

File Name: fedora_2016-68b43a4e0d.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/28/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk4, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/27/2016

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