SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2021:0536-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 146790
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VPR Score: 5.9

Synopsis

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

Description

This update for webkit2gtk3 fixes the following issues :

Update to version 2.30.5 (bsc#1182286) :

 + Bring back the WebKitPluginProcess installation that was removed by mistake.

 + Fix RunLoop objects leaked in worker threads.

 + Fix aarch64 llint build with JIT disabled.

 + Use Internet Explorer quirk for Google Docs.

 + Security fixes: CVE-2020-13558.

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP2-2021-536=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-536=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1182286

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13558/

http://www.nessus.org/u?02183460

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 146790

File Name: suse_SU-2021-0536-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/23/2021

Updated: 3/12/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

VPR Score: 5.9

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/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:typelib-1_0-WebKit2WebExtension, 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, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk3-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13558