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Fedora 23 : webkitgtk4 (2016-d957ffbac1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 93264

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses the following vulnerabilities :

 - [CVE-2016-4622](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-4622), [CVE-2016-4624](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-4624), [CVE-2016-4591](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-4591), [CVE-2016-4590](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-4590)

Additional fixes :

 - Fix performance in accelerated compositing mode with the modesetting intel driver and DRI3 enabled.

 - Reduce the amount of file descriptors that the Web Process keeps open.

 - Fix Web Process deadlocks when loading HLS videos.

 - Make CSS and SVG animations run at 60fps.

 - Make meter elements accessible.

 - Improve accessibility name and description of elements to make it more compatible with W3C specs and fix several bugs in which the accessible name of objects was missing or broken.

 - Fix a crash when running windowed plugins under Wayland.

 - Fix a crash at process exit under Wayland.

 - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Translation updates :

 - German.

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Solution

Update the affected webkitgtk4 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d957ffbac1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93264

File Name: fedora_2016-d957ffbac1.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/2/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk4, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4590, CVE-2016-4591, CVE-2016-4622, CVE-2016-4624