Debian DSA-4064-1 : chromium-browser - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 105195

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

- CVE-2017-15407 Ned Williamson discovered an out-of-bounds write issue.

- CVE-2017-15408 Ke Liu discovered a heap overflow issue in the pdfium library.

- CVE-2017-15409 An out-of-bounds write issue was discovered in the skia library.

- CVE-2017-15410 Luat Nguyen discovered a use-after-free issue in the pdfium library.

- CVE-2017-15411 Luat Nguyen discovered a use-after-free issue in the pdfium library.

- CVE-2017-15413 Gaurav Dewan discovered a type confusion issue.

- CVE-2017-15415 Viktor Brange discovered an information disclosure issue.

- CVE-2017-15416 Ned Williamson discovered an out-of-bounds read issue.

- CVE-2017-15417 Max May discovered an information disclosure issue in the skia library.

- CVE-2017-15418 Kushal Arvind Shah discovered an uninitialized value in the skia library.

- CVE-2017-15419 Jun Kokatsu discoved an information disclosure issue.

- CVE-2017-15420 WenXu Wu discovered a URL spoofing issue.

- CVE-2017-15423 Greg Hudson discovered an issue in the boringssl library.

- CVE-2017-15424 Khalil Zhani discovered a URL spoofing issue.

- CVE-2017-15425 xisigr discovered a URL spoofing issue.

- CVE-2017-15426 WenXu Wu discovered a URL spoofing issue.

- CVE-2017-15427 Junaid Farhan discovered an issue with the omnibox.

Solution

Upgrade the chromium-browser packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 63.0.3239.84-1~deb9u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105195

File Name: debian_DSA-4064.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/13/2017

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-browser, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/28/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15407, CVE-2017-15408, CVE-2017-15409, CVE-2017-15410, CVE-2017-15411, CVE-2017-15413, CVE-2017-15415, CVE-2017-15416, CVE-2017-15417, CVE-2017-15418, CVE-2017-15419, CVE-2017-15420, CVE-2017-15423, CVE-2017-15424, CVE-2017-15425, CVE-2017-15426, CVE-2017-15427

DSA: 4064

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