RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2019:0708)

high Nessus Plugin ID 123914

Language:

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-2019:0708 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Chromium to version 73.0.3683.75.

Security Fix(es):

* chromium-browser: Use after free in Canvas (CVE-2019-5787)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in FileAPI (CVE-2019-5788)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in WebMIDI (CVE-2019-5789)

* chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in V8 (CVE-2019-5790)

* chromium-browser: Type confusion in V8 (CVE-2019-5791)

* chromium-browser: Integer overflow in PDFium (CVE-2019-5792)

* chromium-browser: Excessive permissions for private API in Extensions (CVE-2019-5793)

* chromium-browser: Security UI spoofing (CVE-2019-5794)

* chromium-browser: Integer overflow in PDFium (CVE-2019-5795)

* chromium-browser: Race condition in Extensions (CVE-2019-5796)

* chromium-browser: Race condition in DOMStorage (CVE-2019-5797)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds read in Skia (CVE-2019-5798)

* chromium-browser: CSP bypass with blob URL (CVE-2019-5799)

* chromium-browser: CSP bypass with blob URL (CVE-2019-5800)

* chromium-browser: Security UI spoofing (CVE-2019-5802)

* chromium-browser: CSP bypass with Javascript URLs (CVE-2019-5803)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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-2019:0708.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123914

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-0708.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/9/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2019-5789

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5795

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: 4/8/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/23/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5787, CVE-2019-5788, CVE-2019-5789, CVE-2019-5790, CVE-2019-5791, CVE-2019-5792, CVE-2019-5793, CVE-2019-5794, CVE-2019-5795, CVE-2019-5796, CVE-2019-5797, CVE-2019-5798, CVE-2019-5799, CVE-2019-5800, CVE-2019-5802, CVE-2019-5803

RHSA: 2019:0708

Detections

Analytics