SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2018:0219-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106370
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Synopsis

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

Description

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.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP3-2018-150=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-WE-12-SP2-2018-150=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-150=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2018-150=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2018-150=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-150=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-150=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-150=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2018-150=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020950

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1024749

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050469

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1066892

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069925

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1073654

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1075419

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4692/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4743/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7586/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7587/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7589/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7592/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7598/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7599/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7610/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7623/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7632/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7635/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7639/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7641/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7645/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7652/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7654/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7656/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13788/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13798/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13803/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13856/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13866/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13870/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2350/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2354/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2355/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2356/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2362/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2363/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2364/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2365/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2366/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2369/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2371/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2373/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2496/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2510/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2539/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5753/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5754/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7006/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7011/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7012/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7018/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7019/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7020/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7030/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7034/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7037/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7038/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7039/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7040/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7041/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7042/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7043/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7046/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7048/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7049/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7052/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7055/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7056/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7059/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7061/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7064/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7081/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7087/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7089/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7090/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7091/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7092/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7093/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7094/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7095/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7096/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7098/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7099/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7100/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7102/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7104/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7107/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7109/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7111/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7117/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7120/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7142/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7156/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7157/

http://www.nessus.org/u?df2168e5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106370

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0219-1.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/26/2018

Updated: 9/10/2019

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Temporal Vector: E:H/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-JavaScriptCore, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-WebKit2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk3-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2017

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4692, CVE-2016-4743, CVE-2016-7586, CVE-2016-7587, CVE-2016-7589, CVE-2016-7592, CVE-2016-7598, CVE-2016-7599, CVE-2016-7610, CVE-2016-7623, CVE-2016-7632, CVE-2016-7635, CVE-2016-7639, CVE-2016-7641, CVE-2016-7645, CVE-2016-7652, CVE-2016-7654, CVE-2016-7656, CVE-2017-13788, CVE-2017-13798, CVE-2017-13803, CVE-2017-13856, CVE-2017-13866, CVE-2017-13870, CVE-2017-2350, CVE-2017-2354, CVE-2017-2355, CVE-2017-2356, CVE-2017-2362, CVE-2017-2363, CVE-2017-2364, CVE-2017-2365, CVE-2017-2366, CVE-2017-2369, CVE-2017-2371, CVE-2017-2373, CVE-2017-2496, CVE-2017-2510, CVE-2017-2539, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754, CVE-2017-7006, CVE-2017-7011, CVE-2017-7012, CVE-2017-7018, CVE-2017-7019, CVE-2017-7020, CVE-2017-7030, CVE-2017-7034, CVE-2017-7037, CVE-2017-7038, CVE-2017-7039, CVE-2017-7040, CVE-2017-7041, CVE-2017-7042, CVE-2017-7043, CVE-2017-7046, CVE-2017-7048, CVE-2017-7049, CVE-2017-7052, CVE-2017-7055, CVE-2017-7056, CVE-2017-7059, CVE-2017-7061, CVE-2017-7064, 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, CVE-2017-7156, CVE-2017-7157

IAVA: 2018-A-0019, 2018-A-0020