Debian DSA-5211-1 : wpewebkit - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 164168

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5211 advisory.

- An out-of-bounds write issue was addressed with improved input validation. (CVE-2022-32792)

- The issue was addressed with improved UI handling. (CVE-2022-32816)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the wpewebkit packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 2.36.6-1~deb11u1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wpewebkit

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5211

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-32792

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-32816

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/wpewebkit

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164168

File Name: debian_DSA-5211.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/17/2022

Updated: 12/7/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-32792

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

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: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwpewebkit-1.0-3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwpewebkit-1.0-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwpewebkit-1.0-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wpewebkit-driver, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/20/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-32792, CVE-2022-32816