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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2025:02088-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 240614

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02088-1 advisory.

 Update to version 2.46.3 (bsc#1232747):

 - CVE-2024-44244: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.
 - CVE-2024-44296: Processing maliciously crafted web content may prevent Content Security Policy from being enforced.

 New references to version 2.46.0 (boo#1231039):

 - CVE-2024-44185: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash.

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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1231039

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1232747

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-June/040460.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-44185

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-44244

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-44296

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 240614

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02088-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2025

Updated: 6/26/2025

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-44296

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit2-4_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk3-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37, 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:typelib-1_0-javascriptcore-4_0

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: 6/24/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-44185, CVE-2024-44244, CVE-2024-44296

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02088-1