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Fedora 22 : webkitgtk4-2.8.4-2.fc22 (2015-11395)

high Nessus Plugin ID 84851

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

WebKitGTK+ 2.8.4 includes fixes for 12 security issues. Additional fixes :

 - Make WebSQL work by using a default quota instead of always failing in openDatabase with DOM Exception 18.

 - Improve detection and usage of GL/GLES/EGL libraries.

 - Fix a crash on memory allocation using bmalloc on 32bit systems.

 - Fix DOCUMENT_VIEWER cache model to actually disable the memory cache.

 - Fix a WebProcess crash after too many redirect error when there's an active NPAPI plugin.

 - Fix a WebProcess crash when gtk-font-name setting is empty.

 - Ensure Math.abs() doesn't return negative.

 - Correctly restore accelerated compositing after a WebProcess crash.

 - Respect X-Frame-Options headers when loading from application cache.

 - Several crashes and rendering issues fixed.

 - Fix the MIPS N64 detection.

 - Fix several memory leaks.

 - Translation updates: Catalan.

 - Workaround a crash affecting 32-bit computers.

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225733

http://www.nessus.org/u?b22cf811

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 84851

File Name: fedora_2015-11395.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2015

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: 7/13/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-11395