SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2024:1293-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193356

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1293-1 advisory.

webkit2gtk3 was updated to fix the following issues:

Update to version 2.44.0 (boo#1222010):

- CVE-2024-23252:

Credit to anbu1024 of SecANT.
Impact: Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

- CVE-2024-23254:

Credit to James Lee (@Windowsrcer).
Impact: A malicious website may exfiltrate audio data cross-origin.
Description: The issue was addressed with improved UI handling.

- CVE-2024-23263:

Credit to Johan Carlsson (joaxcar).
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced. Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved validation.

- CVE-2024-23280:

Credit to An anonymous researcher.
Impact: A maliciously crafted webpage may be able to fingerprint the user. Description: An injection issue was addressed with improved validation.

- CVE-2024-23284:

Credit to Georg Felber and Marco Squarcina.
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced. Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved state management.

- CVE-2023-42950:

Credit to Nan Wang (@eternalsakura13) of 360 Vulnerability Research Institute and rushikesh nandedkar.
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Description: A use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management.

- CVE-2023-42956:

Credit to SungKwon Lee (Demon.Team).
Impact: Processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.
Description: The issue was addressed with improved memory handling.

- CVE-2023-42843:

Credit to Kacper Kwapisz (@KKKas_).
Impact: Visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing. Description: An inconsistent user interface issue was addressed with improved state management.

- Make the DOM accessibility tree reachable from UI process with GTK4.
+ Removed the X11 and WPE renderers in favor of DMA-BUF.
+ Improved vblank synchronization when rendering.
+ Removed key event reinjection in GTK4 to make keyboard shortcuts work in web sites.
+ Fix gamepads detection by correctly handling focused window in GTK4.

- Use WebAssembly on aarch64. It is the upstream default and no longer makes the build fail. Stop passing -DENABLE_C_LOOP=ON,
-DENABLE_WEBASSEMBLY=OFF and -DENABLE_SAMPLING_PROFILER=OFF for the same reason.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 193356

File Name: suse_SU-2024-1293-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/16/2024

Updated: 9/24/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2023-42950

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:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-javascriptcore-4_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit2-4_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk3-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit2webextension-4_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk3-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18

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: 4/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-42843, CVE-2023-42950, CVE-2023-42956, CVE-2024-23254, CVE-2024-23263, CVE-2024-23280, CVE-2024-23284

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:1293-1

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