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Fedora 22 : webkitgtk4-2.8.5-1.fc22 (2015-13001)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85475

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

WebKitGTK+ 2.8.5 includes fixes for 3 security issues. Additional fixes :

 - Fix the window size reported when the web view isn't realized yet. This fixes the layout of some websites when opening new tabs in the browser and anchor links when opened in new tabs too.

 - Prevent clipboard contents from being lost when web process finishes.

 - Always allow font matching for strong aliases.

 - Move GStreamer missing plugins installer to the UI process.

 - Fix a crash when spell checker returns no guesses.

 - Fix a crash when SoupSession is destroyed in exit handler.

 - Fix a crash closing a page when default context menu is open.

 - Several crashes and rendering issues fixed.

 - Translation updates: Swedish.

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?06ef76fd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85475

File Name: fedora_2015-13001.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/18/2015

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: 8/7/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-13001