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Fedora 43 : webkitgtk (2025-793513dcf7)

high Nessus Plugin ID 266426

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-793513dcf7 advisory.

 Update to 2.50.0:

 * Improved rendering performance by recording each layer once and replaying every dirty region in different worker threads.
 * Enable damage propagation to the UI process by default.
 * CSS property font-variant-emoji is now enabled by default.
 * Font synthesis properties (bold/italic) are now properly handled.
 * Ensure web view is focused on tap gesture.
 * Added new API to get the theme color of a WebKitWebView.

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-2025-793513dcf7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 266426

File Name: fedora_2025-793513dcf7.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/2/2025

Updated: 10/2/2025

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2025

Reference Information