RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2020:1487)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135688

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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-2020:1487 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Chromium to version 81.0.4044.92.

Security Fix(es):

* chromium-browser: Use after free in audio (CVE-2020-6423)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in extensions (CVE-2020-6454)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds read in WebSQL (CVE-2020-6455)

* chromium-browser: Type Confusion in V8 (CVE-2020-6430)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in full screen (CVE-2020-6431)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in navigations (CVE-2020-6432)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions (CVE-2020-6433)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in devtools (CVE-2020-6434)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions (CVE-2020-6435)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in window management (CVE-2020-6436)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in clipboard (CVE-2020-6456)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in WebView (CVE-2020-6437)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions (CVE-2020-6438)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in navigations (CVE-2020-6439)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in extensions (CVE-2020-6440)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in omnibox (CVE-2020-6441)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in cache (CVE-2020-6442)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient data validation in developer tools (CVE-2020-6443)

* chromium-browser: Uninitialized use in WebRTC (CVE-2020-6444)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in trusted types (CVE-2020-6445)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in trusted types (CVE-2020-6446)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in developer tools (CVE-2020-6447)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in V8 (CVE-2020-6448)

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-2020:1487.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135688

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1487.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/16/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous 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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-6455

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

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: 4/16/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6419, CVE-2020-6423, CVE-2020-6430, CVE-2020-6431, CVE-2020-6432, CVE-2020-6433, CVE-2020-6434, CVE-2020-6435, CVE-2020-6436, CVE-2020-6437, CVE-2020-6438, CVE-2020-6439, CVE-2020-6440, CVE-2020-6441, CVE-2020-6442, CVE-2020-6443, CVE-2020-6444, CVE-2020-6445, CVE-2020-6446, CVE-2020-6447, CVE-2020-6448, CVE-2020-6454, CVE-2020-6455, CVE-2020-6456

CWE: 125

IAVA: 2020-A-0130-S

RHSA: 2020:1487

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