Fedora 26 : webkitgtk4 (2017-dfaf0ca892)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101736

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Highlights of the 2.16.0 release :

- Hardware acceleration is now enabled on demand to drastically reduce memory consumption.

- CSS Grid Layout is enabled by default.

- New WebKitSetting to set the hardware acceleration policy.

- UI process API to configure network proxy settings.

- Improved private browsing by adding new API to create ephemeral web views.

- New API to handle website data.

- Debug tools: memory sampler and resource usage overlay

Translation updates :

- Brazilian Portuguese

- German

- Polish

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This update brings the following changes :

- Show the context menu when triggered by the keyboard.

- Fix web process deadlocks when destroying the media player.

- Fix web process crashes when loading animated GIFs.

- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Translation updates :

- Polish.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-dfaf0ca892

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101736

File Name: fedora_2017-dfaf0ca892.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk4, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2017

Reference Information