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Fedora 29 : chromium (2018-39be36e9fc)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 120356

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fixes for CVE-2018-6055 CVE-2018-6119 CVE-2018-16429 CVE-2018-16428

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Update to Chromium 69. (EPEL-7 update is blocked by a GCC bug:
1629813, so as soon as devtoolset-8 arrives...)

Fixes a lot of security issues, like every major release of Chromium, including CVE-2018-16087 CVE-2018-16088 CVE-2018-16086CVE-2018-16065 CVE-2018-16066 CVE-2018-16067 CVE-2018-16068 CVE-2018-16069 CVE-2018-16070 CVE-2018-16071 CVE-2018-16072 CVE-2018-16073 CVE-2018-16074 CVE-2018-16075 CVE-2018-16076 CVE-2018-16077 CVE-2018-16078

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected chromium package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-39be36e9fc

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 120356

File Name: fedora_2018-39be36e9fc.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 7/8/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16428

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:chromium

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16065, CVE-2018-16066, CVE-2018-16067, CVE-2018-16068, CVE-2018-16069, CVE-2018-16070, CVE-2018-16071, CVE-2018-16072, CVE-2018-16073, CVE-2018-16074, CVE-2018-16075, CVE-2018-16076, CVE-2018-16077, CVE-2018-16078, CVE-2018-16079, CVE-2018-16080, CVE-2018-16081, CVE-2018-16082, CVE-2018-16083, CVE-2018-16084, CVE-2018-16085, CVE-2018-16086, CVE-2018-16087, CVE-2018-16088, CVE-2018-16428, CVE-2018-16429, CVE-2018-17458, CVE-2018-17459, CVE-2018-6055, CVE-2018-6119