SUSE SLES12 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2025:02973-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 255211

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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-2025:02973-1 advisory.

- Update to version 2.48.5:
- CVE-2025-31273: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to memory corruption (bsc#1247564)
- CVE-2025-43265: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content disclosing internal states of the app (bsc#1247600)
- CVE-2025-43216: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to an unexpected Safari crash (bsc#1247596)
- CVE-2025-31278: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to memory corruption (bsc#1247563)
- CVE-2025-6558: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to an unexpected Safari crash.
(bsc#1247742)
- CVE-2025-43227: Fixed Processing maliciously crafted web content disclosing sensitive user information (bsc#1247597)
- CVE-2025-43240: Fixed downloads origin incorrectly associated (bsc#1247599)
- CVE-2025-43228: Fixed visiting a malicious website leading to address bar spoofing (bsc#1247598)
- CVE-2025-43212: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to an unexpected Safari crash (bsc#1247595)
- CVE-2025-43211: Fixed processing web content leading to a denial-of-service (bsc#1247562)
- Fix several crashes.
- Changes in version 2.48.4:
- 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 the build on LoongArch with USE_SKIA=ON.
- Fix crash when using a WebKitWebView widget in an offscreen window.
- Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
- Changes in version 2.48.3:
- 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.

- CVE-2024-44192:Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to an unexpected process crash (bsc#1239863)
- CVE-2024-54467: Fixed data cross-origin exfiltration due to a cookie management issue (bsc#1239864)
- CVE-2025-24201: Fixed out-of-bounds write vulnerability (bsc#1239547)
- CVE-2025-24189: Fixed processing maliciously crafted web content leading to memory corruption (bsc#1247565)

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: 255211

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02973-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/26/2025

Updated: 8/26/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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:webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles, 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:libwebkit2gtk3-lang, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18

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: 8/25/2025

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-2025:02973-1

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