An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. Safari before 11 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit Storage" component. It allows attackers to bypass the Safari Private Browsing protection mechanism, and consequently obtain sensitive information about visited web sites.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. Safari before 11 is affected. The issue involves the     WebKit Storage component. It allows attackers to bypass the Safari Private Browsing protection     mechanism, and consequently obtain sensitive information about visited web sites. (CVE-2017-7142)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of Apple iOS running on the mobile device is prior to 11.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as described in the HT208143 security advisory.

The version of Apple Safari installed on the remote host is prior to 11.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as described in the HT208116 security advisory.

This update for webkit2gtk3 fixes the following issues :

Update to version 2.18.5 :

  + Disable SharedArrayBuffers from Web API.

  + Reduce the precision of 'high' resolution time to 1ms.

  + bsc#1075419 - Security fixes: includes improvements to     mitigate the effects of Spectre and Meltdown     (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715).

Update to version 2.18.4 :

  + Make WebDriver implementation more spec compliant.

  + Fix a bug when trying to remove cookies before a web     process is spawned.

  + WebKitWebDriver process no longer links to     libjavascriptcoregtk.

  + Fix several memory leaks in GStreamer media backend.

  + bsc#1073654 - Security fixes: CVE-2017-13866,     CVE-2017-13870, CVE-2017-7156, CVE-2017-13856.

Update to version 2.18.3 :

  + Improve calculation of font metrics to prevent     scrollbars from being shown unnecessarily in some cases.

  + Fix handling of null capabilities in WebDriver     implementation.

  + Security fixes: CVE-2017-13798, CVE-2017-13788,     CVE-2017-13803.

Update to version 2.18.2 :

  + Fix rendering of arabic text.

  + Fix a crash in the web process when decoding GIF images.

  + Fix rendering of wind in Windy.com.

  + Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Update to version 2.18.1 :

  + Improve performance of GIF animations.

  + Fix garbled display in GMail.

  + Fix rendering of several material design icons when     using the web font.

  + Fix flickering when resizing the window in Wayland.

  + Prevent default kerberos authentication credentials from     being used in ephemeral sessions.

  + Fix a crash when webkit_web_resource_get_data() is     cancelled.

  + Correctly handle touchmove and touchend events in     WebKitWebView.

  + Fix the build with enchant 2.1.1.

  + Fix the build in HPPA and Alpha.

  + Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

  + Security fixes: CVE-2017-7081, CVE-2017-7087,     CVE-2017-7089, CVE-2017-7090, CVE-2017-7091,     CVE-2017-7092, CVE-2017-7093, CVE-2017-7094,     CVE-2017-7095, CVE-2017-7096, CVE-2017-7098,     CVE-2017-7099, CVE-2017-7100, CVE-2017-7102,     CVE-2017-7104, CVE-2017-7107, CVE-2017-7109,     CVE-2017-7111, CVE-2017-7117, CVE-2017-7120,     CVE-2017-7142.

  - Enable gold linker on s390/s390x on SLE15/Tumbleweed.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

This update for webkit2gtk3 fixes the following issues: Update to version 2.18.5 :

  + Disable SharedArrayBuffers from Web API.

  + Reduce the precision of 'high' resolution time to 1ms.

  + bsc#1075419 - Security fixes: includes improvements to     mitigate the effects of Spectre and Meltdown     (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715). Update to version     2.18.4 :

  + Make WebDriver implementation more spec compliant.

  + Fix a bug when trying to remove cookies before a web     process is spawned.

  + WebKitWebDriver process no longer links to     libjavascriptcoregtk.

  + Fix several memory leaks in GStreamer media backend.

  + bsc#1073654 - Security fixes: CVE-2017-13866,     CVE-2017-13870, CVE-2017-7156, CVE-2017-13856. Update to     version 2.18.3 :

  + Improve calculation of font metrics to prevent     scrollbars from being shown unnecessarily in some cases.

  + Fix handling of null capabilities in WebDriver     implementation.

  + Security fixes: CVE-2017-13798, CVE-2017-13788,     CVE-2017-13803. Update to version 2.18.2 :

  + Fix rendering of arabic text.

  + Fix a crash in the web process when decoding GIF images.

  + Fix rendering of wind in Windy.com.

  + Fix several crashes and rendering issues. Update to     version 2.18.1 :

  + Improve performance of GIF animations.

  + Fix garbled display in GMail.

  + Fix rendering of several material design icons when     using the web font.

  + Fix flickering when resizing the window in Wayland.

  + Prevent default kerberos authentication credentials from     being used in ephemeral sessions.

  + Fix a crash when webkit_web_resource_get_data() is     cancelled.

  + Correctly handle touchmove and touchend events in     WebKitWebView.

  + Fix the build with enchant 2.1.1.

  + Fix the build in HPPA and Alpha.

  + Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

  + Security fixes: CVE-2017-7081, CVE-2017-7087,     CVE-2017-7089, CVE-2017-7090, CVE-2017-7091,     CVE-2017-7092, CVE-2017-7093, CVE-2017-7094,     CVE-2017-7095, CVE-2017-7096, CVE-2017-7098,     CVE-2017-7099, CVE-2017-7100, CVE-2017-7102,     CVE-2017-7104, CVE-2017-7107, CVE-2017-7109,     CVE-2017-7111, CVE-2017-7117, CVE-2017-7120,     CVE-2017-7142.

  - Enable gold linker on s390/s390x on SLE15/Tumbleweed.

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

The version of Apple iOS running on the mobile device is prior to 11. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as described in the HT208112 security advisory.

The version of Apple Safari installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is prior to 11.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as described in the HT208116 security advisory.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254794	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-7142	Nessus	Misc.	medium
700542	Apple iOS < 11.0.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Mobile Devices	critical
700499	Apple Safari < 11.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	medium
106549	openSUSE Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (openSUSE-2018-118) (Meltdown) (Spectre)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
106370	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2018:0219-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
103420	Apple iOS < 11 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Mobile Devices	critical
103360	macOS : Apple Safari < 11.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high

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