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Fedora 24 : webkitgtk4 (2017-d317f6fb61)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96680

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses the following vulnerabilities :

 - [CVE-2016-7656](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7656), [CVE-2016-7635](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7635), [CVE-2016-7654](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7654), [CVE-2016-7639](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7639), [CVE-2016-7645](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7645), [CVE-2016-7652](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7652), [CVE-2016-7641](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7641), [CVE-2016-7632](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7632), [CVE-2016-7599](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7599), [CVE-2016-7592](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7592), [CVE-2016-7589](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7589), [CVE-2016-7623](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7623), [CVE-2016-7586](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg i?name=CVE-2016-7586)

Additional fixes :

 - Create GLX OpenGL contexts using version 3.2 (core profile) when available to reduce the memory consumption on Mesa based drivers.

 - Improve memory pressure handler to reduce the CPU usage on memory pressure situations.

 - Fix a regression in WebKitWebView title notify signal emission that caused the signal to be emitted multiple times.

 - Fix high CPU usage in the web process loading hyphenation dictionaries. More user agent string improvements to improve compatibility with several websites.

 - Fix web process crash when closing the web view in X11.

 - Fix the build with OpenGL ES2 enabled.

 - Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

Translation updates :

 - German.

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Solution

Update the affected webkitgtk4 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-d317f6fb61

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96680

File Name: fedora_2017-d317f6fb61.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/23/2017

Updated: 1/5/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-7656

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:webkitgtk4

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/21/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7586, CVE-2016-7589, CVE-2016-7592, CVE-2016-7599, CVE-2016-7623, CVE-2016-7632, CVE-2016-7635, CVE-2016-7639, CVE-2016-7641, CVE-2016-7645, CVE-2016-7652, CVE-2016-7654, CVE-2016-7656