The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.3.3 is affected. Safari before 10.1.2 is     affected. iCloud before 6.2.2 on Windows is affected. iTunes before 12.6.2 on Windows is affected. tvOS     before 10.2.2 is affected. The issue involves the WebKit component. It allows remote attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a     crafted web site. (CVE-2017-7039)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This update for webkit2gtk3 fixes the following issues: Update to version 2.18.5 :

  + Disable SharedArrayBuffers from Web API.

  + Reduce the precision of 'high' resolution time to 1ms.

  + bsc#1075419 - Security fixes: includes improvements to     mitigate the effects of Spectre and Meltdown     (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715). Update to version     2.18.4 :

  + Make WebDriver implementation more spec compliant.

  + Fix a bug when trying to remove cookies before a web     process is spawned.

  + WebKitWebDriver process no longer links to     libjavascriptcoregtk.

  + Fix several memory leaks in GStreamer media backend.

  + bsc#1073654 - Security fixes: CVE-2017-13866,     CVE-2017-13870, CVE-2017-7156, CVE-2017-13856. Update to     version 2.18.3 :

  + Improve calculation of font metrics to prevent     scrollbars from being shown unnecessarily in some cases.

  + Fix handling of null capabilities in WebDriver     implementation.

  + Security fixes: CVE-2017-13798, CVE-2017-13788,     CVE-2017-13803. Update to version 2.18.2 :

  + Fix rendering of arabic text.

  + Fix a crash in the web process when decoding GIF images.

  + Fix rendering of wind in Windy.com.

  + Fix several crashes and rendering issues. Update to     version 2.18.1 :

  + Improve performance of GIF animations.

  + Fix garbled display in GMail.

  + Fix rendering of several material design icons when     using the web font.

  + Fix flickering when resizing the window in Wayland.

  + Prevent default kerberos authentication credentials from     being used in ephemeral sessions.

  + Fix a crash when webkit_web_resource_get_data() is     cancelled.

  + Correctly handle touchmove and touchend events in     WebKitWebView.

  + Fix the build with enchant 2.1.1.

  + Fix the build in HPPA and Alpha.

  + Fix several crashes and rendering issues.

  + Security fixes: CVE-2017-7081, CVE-2017-7087,     CVE-2017-7089, CVE-2017-7090, CVE-2017-7091,     CVE-2017-7092, CVE-2017-7093, CVE-2017-7094,     CVE-2017-7095, CVE-2017-7096, CVE-2017-7098,     CVE-2017-7099, CVE-2017-7100, CVE-2017-7102,     CVE-2017-7104, CVE-2017-7107, CVE-2017-7109,     CVE-2017-7111, CVE-2017-7117, CVE-2017-7120,     CVE-2017-7142.

  - Enable gold linker on s390/s390x on SLE15/Tumbleweed.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
254847	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-7039	Nessus	Misc.	8/25/2025	7/17/2026	high
106370	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (SUSE-SU-2018:0219-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/26/2018	1/13/2026	high

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