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Fedora 40 : webkitgtk (2024-4d71f28349)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200702

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-4d71f28349 advisory.

 Update to 2.44.2:

 * Make gamepads visible on axis movements, and not only on button presses.
 * Disable the gst-libav AAC decoder.
 * Make user scripts and style sheets visible in the Web Inspector.
 * Use the geolocation portal where available, with the existing geoclue as fallback if the portal is not usable.
 * Use the printing portal when running sandboxed.
 * Use the file transfer portal for drag and drop when running sandboxed.
 * Avoid notifying an empty cursor rectangle to input methods.
 * Remove empty bar shown in detached inspector windows.
 * Consider keycode when activating application accelerators.
 * Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
 * Fix CVE-2024-27834


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

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

Solution

Update the affected webkitgtk package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-4d71f28349

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200702

File Name: fedora_2024-4d71f28349.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/18/2024

Updated: 11/5/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.5

Percentile: 98.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-27834

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2024

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 11/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-27834