AlmaLinux 9 : webkit2gtk3 (ALSA-2025:22790)

high Nessus Plugin ID 277842

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:22790 advisory.

* webkit: WebKitGTK / WPE WebKit: Out-of-bounds read and integer underflow vulnerability leading to DoS (CVE-2025-13502)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption (CVE-2023-43000)
* webkitgtk: A website may exfiltrate image data cross-origin (CVE-2025-43392)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption (CVE-2025-43419)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2025-43425)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2025-43427)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2025-43429)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2025-43430)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to memory corruption (CVE-2025-43431)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2025-43432)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected Safari crash (CVE-2025-43434)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2025-43440)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2025-43443)
* webkitgtk: A malicious website may exfiltrate data cross-origin (CVE-2025-43480)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2025-43421)
* webkit: WebKitGTK: Remote user-assisted information disclosure via file drag-and-drop (CVE-2025-13947)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2025-43458)
* webkitgtk: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to an unexpected process crash (CVE-2025-66287)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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.

See Also

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-22790.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22790

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 277842

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-22790.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Published: 12/9/2025

Updated: 12/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

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-2025-66287

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:webkit2gtk3, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:webkit2gtk3-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:webkit2gtk3-jsc-devel, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43000, CVE-2025-13502, CVE-2025-13947, CVE-2025-43392, CVE-2025-43419, CVE-2025-43421, CVE-2025-43425, CVE-2025-43427, CVE-2025-43429, CVE-2025-43430, CVE-2025-43431, CVE-2025-43432, CVE-2025-43434, CVE-2025-43440, CVE-2025-43443, CVE-2025-43458, CVE-2025-43480, CVE-2025-66287

CWE: 119, 120, 125, 190, 20, 200, 416

IAVA: 2025-A-0901

RHSA: 2025:22790