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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : webkit2gtk vulnerabilities (USN-3079-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 93511

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK+ Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could exploit a variety of issues related to web browser security, including cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service attacks, and arbitrary code execution.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 and / or libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3079-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93511

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3079-1.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/15/2016

Updated: 1/12/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1854, CVE-2016-1856, CVE-2016-1857, CVE-2016-1858, CVE-2016-1859, CVE-2016-4583, CVE-2016-4585, CVE-2016-4586, CVE-2016-4588, CVE-2016-4589, CVE-2016-4590, CVE-2016-4591, CVE-2016-4622, CVE-2016-4623, CVE-2016-4624, CVE-2016-4651

USN: 3079-1