RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2017:3082)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104267

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for chromium-browser.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3082 advisory.

- , CVE-2017-15406 chromium-browser: stack overflow in v8 (CVE-2017-15396, CVE-2017-15406)

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 RHEL chromium-browser package based on the guidance in RHSA-2017:3082.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6133a3fa

http://www.nessus.org/u?8685ddb1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3082

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1506942

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104267

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-3082.nasl

Version: 3.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/31/2017

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2017-15406

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:chromium-browser, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/28/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15396, CVE-2017-15406

RHSA: 2017:3082