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Fedora 44 : webkitgtk (2026-f00460a7d9)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 304343

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-f00460a7d9 advisory.

 Update to 2.52.1:

 * Reduce the amount of useless MPRIS notifications produced by MediaSesion when the information about media being played is incomplete.
 * Add Sysprof marks for mouse events.
 * Fix MediaSession icon for iheart.com not being displayed.
 * Fix several crashes and rendering issues.
 * Translation updates: Georgian.

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 Update to 2.52.0:

 * Make text look like in other browsers by blending in linear color space.
 * Improved rendering performance by using a different tile size depending on whether GPU rendering is enabled or not.
 * Improved composition scheduling to avoid blocking waiting for tile painting.
 * Improved performance of accelerated 2D canvas by recording operations for batched replay.
 * Improved async scrolling when main thread is busy by avoiding locks and rendering the scrollbars from the scrolling thread.
 * Enabled dynamic MSAA for accelerated 2D canvas rendering.
 * Improved text rendering performance
 * Videos with BT2100-PQ colorspace are now tone-mapped to SDR, ensuring colours do not appear washed out.
 * Added support for the Audio Output Devices API.
 * Added API to handle WebXR permission requests.
 * Added API to query the immersive session status.
 * Added initial API for web extensions.

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 2.51.93:

 * Make text look like in other browsers by blending in linear color space.
 * Avoid composition for non visible layers with running animations.
 * Fix several crashes and rendering issues.


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 2.51.92:

 * Fix PDF rendering broken by the accelerated 2D canvas performance improvements.
 * Fix flickering while scrolling in some edge cases.
 * Support for rotation and mirroring in internal WebCodecs encoder.
 * System fallback font selection no longer takes style into account.
 * Fix several crashes and rendering issues.





Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 webkitgtk package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-f00460a7d9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 304343

File Name: fedora_2026-f00460a7d9.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/30/2026

Updated: 3/30/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-20676

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-43213, CVE-2025-43214, CVE-2025-43457, CVE-2025-43511, CVE-2025-46299, CVE-2026-20608, CVE-2026-20635, CVE-2026-20636, CVE-2026-20643, CVE-2026-20644, CVE-2026-20652, CVE-2026-20664, CVE-2026-20665, CVE-2026-20676, CVE-2026-20691, CVE-2026-28857, CVE-2026-28859, CVE-2026-28871