RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2020:1981)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 136186

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-2020:1981 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Chromium to version 81.0.4044.129.

Security Fix(es):

* chromium-browser: Use after free in storage (CVE-2020-6461)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in task scheduling (CVE-2020-6462)

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-2020:1981.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cffb38ea

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1981

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828859

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828860

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 136186

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1981.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2020

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: Medium

Score: 6.5

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-2020-6462

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

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: 4/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6461, CVE-2020-6462

CWE: 416

IAVA: 2020-A-0176-S

RHSA: 2020:1981