RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2018:3004)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118373

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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-2018:3004 advisory.

- chromium-browser: Lack of limits on update() in ServiceWorker (CVE-2018-5179)

- lcms2: Integer overflow in AllocateDataSet() in cmscgats.c leading to heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2018-16435)

- chromium-browser: Sandbox escape in AppCache (CVE-2018-17462)

- chromium-browser: Remote code execution in V8 (CVE-2018-17463)

- chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-17464, CVE-2018-17467, CVE-2018-17473, CVE-2018-17475)

- chromium-browser: Use after free in V8 (CVE-2018-17465)

- chromium-browser, firefox: Memory corruption in Angle (CVE-2018-17466)

- chromium-browser: Cross-origin URL disclosure in Blink (CVE-2018-17468)

- chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium (CVE-2018-17469)

- chromium-browser: Memory corruption in GPU Internals (CVE-2018-17470)

- chromium-browser: Security UI occlusion in full screen mode (CVE-2018-17471, CVE-2018-17476)

- chromium-browser: Use after free in Blink (CVE-2018-17474)

- chromium-browser: UI spoof in Extensions (CVE-2018-17477)

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-2018:3004.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 118373

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3004.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/25/2018

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17474

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.9

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17462

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: 10/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2018

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/22/2022

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Google Chrome 67, 68 and 69 Object.create exploit)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16435, CVE-2018-17462, CVE-2018-17463, CVE-2018-17464, CVE-2018-17465, CVE-2018-17466, CVE-2018-17467, CVE-2018-17468, CVE-2018-17469, CVE-2018-17470, CVE-2018-17471, CVE-2018-17473, CVE-2018-17474, CVE-2018-17475, CVE-2018-17476, CVE-2018-17477, CVE-2018-5179

CWE: 122

RHSA: 2018:3004

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