SUSE SLES15 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2025:02766-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 249218

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02766-1 advisory.

Updated to version 2.48.5:
- CVE-2025-31273: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content could lead to memory corruption. (bsc#1247564)
- CVE-2025-31278: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption. (bsc#1247563)
- CVE-2025-43211: Fixed a vulnerability where processing web content may lead to a denial-of-service.
(bsc#1247562)
- CVE-2025-43212: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash. (bsc#1247595)
- CVE-2025-43216: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash. (bsc#1247596)
- CVE-2025-43227: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose sensitive user information. (bsc#1247597)
- CVE-2025-43228: Fixed a vulnerability where visiting a malicious website may lead to address bar spoofing. (bsc#1247598)
- CVE-2025-43240: Fixed a vulnerability where a download's origin may be incorrectly associated.
(bsc#1247599)
- CVE-2025-43265: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may disclose internal states of the app. (bsc#1247600)
- CVE-2025-6558: Fixed a vulnerability where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash. (bsc#1247742)

Other fixes:
- Improve emoji font selection with USE_SKIA=ON.
- Improve playback of multimedia streams from blob URLs.
- Fix the build with USE_SKIA_OPENTYPE_SVG=ON and USE_SYSPROF_CAPTURE=ON.
- Fix crash when using a WebKitWebView widget in an offscreen window.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Fix a crash introduced by the new threaded rendering implementation using Skia API.
- Improve rendering performance by recording layers once and replaying every dirty region in different worker threads.
- Fix a crash when setting WEBKIT_SKIA_GPU_PAINTING_THREADS=0.
- Fix a reference cycle in webkitmediastreamsrc preventing its disposal.
- Increase mem_per_process again to avoid running out of memory.

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: 249218

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02766-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/13/2025

Updated: 8/13/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24201

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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:F/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, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/30/2025

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/3/2025, 8/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-44192, CVE-2024-54467, CVE-2025-24189, CVE-2025-24201, CVE-2025-31273, CVE-2025-31278, CVE-2025-43211, CVE-2025-43212, CVE-2025-43216, CVE-2025-43227, CVE-2025-43228, CVE-2025-43240, CVE-2025-43265, CVE-2025-6558

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02766-1

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