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Fedora 41 : webkitgtk (2025-c40948de3a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 236932

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-c40948de3a advisory.

 * Enable CSS Overscroll Behavior by default.
 * Change threaded rendering implementation to use Skia API instead of WebCore display list that is not thread safe.
 * Fix rendering when device scale factor change comes before the web view geometry update.
 * Fix network process crash on exit.
 * Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
 * Fix CVE-2025-24223, CVE-2025-31204, CVE-2025-31205, CVE-2025-31206, CVE-2025-31215, CVE-2025-31257


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 webkitgtk package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-c40948de3a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 236932

File Name: fedora_2025-c40948de3a.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2025

Updated: 5/19/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

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-2025-31204

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:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-24223, CVE-2025-31204, CVE-2025-31205, CVE-2025-31206, CVE-2025-31215, CVE-2025-31257