RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2018:1815)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 110406

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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-2018:1815 advisory.

Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

This update upgrades Chromium to version 67.0.3396.62.

Security Fix(es):

* chromium-browser: Use after free in Blink (CVE-2018-6123)

* chromium-browser: Type confusion in Blink (CVE-2018-6124)

* chromium-browser: Overly permissive policy in WebUSB (CVE-2018-6125)

* chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in Skia (CVE-2018-6126)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in indexedDB (CVE-2018-6127)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds memory access in WebRTC (CVE-2018-6129)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds memory access in WebRTC (CVE-2018-6130)

* chromium-browser: Incorrect mutability protection in WebAssembly (CVE-2018-6131)

* chromium-browser: Use of uninitialized memory in WebRTC (CVE-2018-6132)

* chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-6133)

* chromium-browser: Referrer Policy bypass in Blink (CVE-2018-6134)

* chromium-browser: UI spoofing in Blink (CVE-2018-6135)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds memory access in V8 (CVE-2018-6136)

* chromium-browser: Leak of visited status of page in Blink (CVE-2018-6137)

* chromium-browser: Overly permissive policy in Extensions (CVE-2018-6138)

* chromium-browser: Restrictions bypass in the debugger extension API (CVE-2018-6139)

* chromium-browser: Restrictions bypass in the debugger extension API (CVE-2018-6140)

* chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in Skia (CVE-2018-6141)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds memory access in V8 (CVE-2018-6142)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds memory access in V8 (CVE-2018-6143)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds memory access in PDFium (CVE-2018-6144)

* chromium-browser: Incorrect escaping of MathML in Blink (CVE-2018-6145)

* chromium-browser: Password fields not taking advantage of OS protections in Views (CVE-2018-6147)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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-2018:1815.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 110406

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1815.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/8/2018

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6140

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6127

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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/7/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6123, CVE-2018-6124, CVE-2018-6125, CVE-2018-6126, CVE-2018-6127, CVE-2018-6129, CVE-2018-6130, CVE-2018-6131, CVE-2018-6132, CVE-2018-6133, CVE-2018-6134, CVE-2018-6135, CVE-2018-6136, CVE-2018-6137, CVE-2018-6138, CVE-2018-6139, CVE-2018-6140, CVE-2018-6141, CVE-2018-6142, CVE-2018-6143, CVE-2018-6144, CVE-2018-6145, CVE-2018-6147

RHSA: 2018:1815

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