SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2025:3701-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 271170

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:3701-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-43343: improved memory handling in web content processing to prevent process crash (bsc#1251975)
- CVE-2025-43272: improved memory handling to prevent unexpected process crash (bsc#1250439)
- CVE-2025-43342: correctness issue was addressed with improved checks to prevent unexcepted process crash (bsc#1250440)
- CVE-2025-43356: improved handling of caches to prevent sensor access without consent (bsc#1250441)
- CVE-2025-43368: improved memory management to prevent a use-after-free (bsc#1250442)

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: Critical

ID: 271170

File Name: suse_SU-2025-3701-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/22/2025

Updated: 10/22/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2025-43368

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-43343

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles, 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:typelib-1_0-webkit2webextension-4_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_1-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4_1-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit2-4_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit2webextension-4_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk3-soup2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-6_0-1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkitgtk-4.1-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-javascriptcore-6_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkit-6_0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk3-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4_0-37, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-javascriptcore-4_1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk-4_1-injected-bundles, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwebkitgtk-6_0-4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkitgtk-6_0-injected-bundles, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkitgtk-4.0-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkitgtk-6.0-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-webkitwebprocessextension-6_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk4-devel

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: 10/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/15/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-43272, CVE-2025-43342, CVE-2025-43343, CVE-2025-43356, CVE-2025-43368

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:3701-1

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