RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2020:0738)

high Nessus Plugin ID 134360

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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-2020:0738 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Chromium to version 80.0.3987.122.

Security Fix(es):

* ICU: Integer overflow in UnicodeString::doAppend() (BZ#1807349)

* chromium-browser: Type confusion in V8 (CVE-2020-6383)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in WebAudio (CVE-2020-6384)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in speech (CVE-2020-6386)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds memory access in streams (CVE-2020-6407)

* chromium-browser: Type confusion in V8 (CVE-2020-6418)

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-2020:0738.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 134360

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-0738.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 3/10/2020

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: Critical

Score: 9.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-6418

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.4

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

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: 3/9/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 5/3/2022

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Google Chrome 80 JSCreate side-effect type confusion exploit)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10531, CVE-2020-6383, CVE-2020-6384, CVE-2020-6386, CVE-2020-6407, CVE-2020-6418

CWE: 190, 843

IAVA: 2020-A-0078-S

RHSA: 2020:0738

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