The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5695 advisory.

    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian Security Advisory DSA-5695-1                   security@debian.org     https://www.debian.org/security/                           Alberto Garcia     May 22, 2024                          https://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : webkit2gtk     CVE ID         : CVE-2024-27834

    The following vulnerabilities have been discovered in the WebKitGTK     web engine:

    CVE-2024-27834

       Manfred Paul discovered that an attacker with arbitrary read and        write capability may be able to bypass Pointer Authentication.

    For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed     in version 2.44.2-1~deb11u1.

    For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in     version 2.44.2-1~deb12u1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your webkit2gtk packages.

    For the detailed security status of webkit2gtk please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/webkit2gtk

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

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

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

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Debian dsa-5695 : gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 197634

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