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Fedora 22 : webkitgtk4-2.10.7-1.fc22 (2016-143a48536c)
high Nessus Plugin ID 89480
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Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
This update together with previous releases addresses the following vulnerabilities: - CVE-2015-7096 - CVE-2015-7098 Additional fixes: - Disable DNS prefetch when a proxy is configured. - Reduce the maximum simultaneous network connections to match other browsers. - Make WebKitWebView always propagate motion-notify-event signal. - Add a way to force accelerating compositing mode at runtime using an environment variable. - Fix input elements and scrollbars rendering with GTK+ 3.19. - Fix rendering of lines when using solid colors. - Fix UI process crashes related to not having a main resource response when the load is committed for pages restored from the history cache.- Fix a WebProcess crash when loading large contents with custom URI schemes API. - Fix a crash in the UI process when the WebView is destroyed while the screensaver DBus proxy is being created. - Fix WebProcess crashes due to BadDrawable X errors in accelerated compositing mode. - Fix crashes on PPC64 due to mprotect() on address not aligned to the page size. - Fix std::bad_function_call exception raised in dispatchDecidePolicyForNavigationAction. - Fix downloads of data URLs. - Fix runtime critical warnings when closing a page containing windowed plugins. - Fix several crashes and rendering issues. - Fix a deadlock in the Web Process when JavaScript garbage collector was running for a web worker thread that made google maps to hang. - Fix media controls displaying without controls attribute. - Fix a Web Process crash when quickly attempting many DnD operations. - Fix the build with GTK+ < 3.16. - Translation updates: French, German, Italian, Turkish.
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
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 89480
File Name: fedora_2016-143a48536c.nasl
Version: 1.3
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 3/4/2016
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: 2/10/2016
Reference Information
FEDORA: 2016-143a48536c