RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2019:2427)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127828

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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-2019:2427 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Chromium to version 76.0.3809.87.

Security Fix(es):

* chromium-browser: Use-after-free in offline page fetcher (CVE-2019-5850)

* chromium-browser: Use-after-poison in offline audio context (CVE-2019-5851)

* chromium-browser: Memory corruption in regexp length check (CVE-2019-5853)

* chromium-browser: res: URIs can load alternative browsers (CVE-2019-5859)

* chromium-browser: Use-after-free in PDFium (CVE-2019-5860)

* chromium-browser: Integer overflow in PDFium (CVE-2019-5855)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient checks on filesystem: URI permissions (CVE-2019-5856)

* chromium-browser: Site isolation bypass from compromised renderer (CVE-2019-5865)

* chromium-browser: Object leak of utility functions (CVE-2019-5852)

* chromium-browser: Integer overflow in PDFium text rendering (CVE-2019-5854)

* chromium-browser: Comparison of -0 and null yields crash (CVE-2019-5857)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient filtering of Open URL service parameters (CVE-2019-5858)

* chromium-browser: Click location incorrectly checked (CVE-2019-5861)

* chromium-browser: AppCache not robust to compromised renderers (CVE-2019-5862)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient port filtering in CORS for extensions (CVE-2019-5864)

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-2019:2427.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 127828

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2427.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/13/2019

Updated: 11/7/2024

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: 7.3

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2019-5859

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-5850

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-5850, CVE-2019-5851, CVE-2019-5852, CVE-2019-5853, CVE-2019-5854, CVE-2019-5855, CVE-2019-5856, CVE-2019-5857, CVE-2019-5858, CVE-2019-5859, CVE-2019-5860, CVE-2019-5861, CVE-2019-5862, CVE-2019-5864, CVE-2019-5865

RHSA: 2019:2427

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