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Fedora 24 : 1:epiphany / webkitgtk4 (2016-f4b5897686)

high Nessus Plugin ID 94125

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Update WebKitGTK+ package to 2.14.1. Major changes in 2.14.0 :

 - Threaded compositor is enabled by default in both X11 and Wayland.

 - Accelerated compositing is now supported in Wayland.

 - Clipboard works in Wayland too.

 - Memory pressure handler always works even when cgroups is not present or not configured.

 - The HTTP disk cache implements speculative revalidation of resources.

 - DRI3 is no longer a problem when using the modesetting intel driver.

 - The amount of file descriptors that are kept open has been drastically reduced.

Fixes from 2.14.1 :

 - MiniBrowser and jsc binaries are now installed in pkglibexecdir instead of bindir.

 - Improve performance when resizing a window with multiple web views in X11.

 - Check whether GDK can use GL before using gdk_cairo_draw_from_gl() in Wayland.

 - Updated default UserAgent string or better compatibility.

 - Fix a crash on github.com in IntlDateTimeFormat::resolvedOptions when using the C locale.

 - Fix BadDamage X errors when closing the web view in X11.

 - Fix UIProcess crash when using Japanese input method.

 - Fix build with clang due to missing header includes.

 - Fix the build with USE_REDIRECTED_XCOMPOSITE_WINDOW disabled.

 - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

 - Translation updates: German.

Update Epiphany to be compatible with the new WebKitGTK+ package.

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 1:epiphany and / or webkitgtk4 packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-f4b5897686

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 94125

File Name: fedora_2016-f4b5897686.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/19/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:1:epiphany, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk4, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2016

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