SUSE SLES12 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2025:3905-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 274424

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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-2025:3905-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-43343: Fixed an issue where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (bsc#1251975)
- CVE-2025-43272: Fixed an issue where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash (bsc#1250439)
- CVE-2025-43342: Fixed an issue where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (bsc#1250440)
- CVE-2025-43356: Fixed an issue where websites may be able to access sensor information without user consent (bsc#1250441)
- CVE-2025-43368: Fixed an issue where processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash (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: 274424

File Name: suse_SU-2025-3905-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/7/2025

Updated: 11/7/2025

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: 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: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:libwebkit2gtk3-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:webkit2gtk-4_0-injected-bundles, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4_0-18, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 11/1/2025

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-2025:3905-1

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