Debian DSA-4340-1 : chromium-browser - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 119018

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Synopsis

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

Description

An out-of-bounds bounds memory access issue was discovered in chromium's v8 JavaScript library by cloudfuzzer.

This update also fixes two problems introduced by the previous security upload. Support for arm64 has been restored and gconf-service is no longer a package dependency.

Solution

Upgrade the chromium-browser packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 70.0.3538.102-1~deb9u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119018

File Name: debian_DSA-4340.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/19/2018

Updated: 7/22/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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-2018-17478

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: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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/18/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17478

DSA: 4340

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