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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : webkit vulnerabilities (USN-1617-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 62707

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKit browser and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1617-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 62707

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1617-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/26/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless 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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3031, CVE-2011-3038, CVE-2011-3042, CVE-2011-3043, CVE-2011-3044, CVE-2011-3051, CVE-2011-3053, CVE-2011-3059, CVE-2011-3060, CVE-2011-3064, CVE-2011-3067, CVE-2011-3076, CVE-2011-3081, CVE-2011-3086, CVE-2011-3090, CVE-2012-1521, CVE-2012-3598, CVE-2012-3601, CVE-2012-3604, CVE-2012-3611, CVE-2012-3612, CVE-2012-3617, CVE-2012-3625, CVE-2012-3626, CVE-2012-3627, CVE-2012-3628, CVE-2012-3645, CVE-2012-3652, CVE-2012-3657, CVE-2012-3669, CVE-2012-3670, CVE-2012-3671, CVE-2012-3672, CVE-2012-3674

BID: 52271, 52674, 52762, 52913, 53309, 53540, 54680, 55534

USN: 1617-1