RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2020:2544)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 137410

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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-2020:2544 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Chromium to version 83.0.4103.97.

Security Fix(es):

* chromium-browser: Use after free in reader mode (CVE-2020-6465)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in media (CVE-2020-6466)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in WebRTC (CVE-2020-6467)

* chromium-browser: Type Confusion in V8 (CVE-2020-6468)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools (CVE-2020-6469)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in WebAuthentication (CVE-2020-6493)

* chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in payments (CVE-2020-6494)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools (CVE-2020-6495)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in payments (CVE-2020-6496)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in clipboard (CVE-2020-6470)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools (CVE-2020-6471)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools (CVE-2020-6472)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in Blink (CVE-2020-6473)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in Blink (CVE-2020-6474)

* chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in full screen (CVE-2020-6475)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in tab strip (CVE-2020-6476)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in full screen (CVE-2020-6478)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in sharing (CVE-2020-6479)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in enterprise (CVE-2020-6480)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in URL formatting (CVE-2020-6481)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in developer tools (CVE-2020-6482)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in payments (CVE-2020-6483)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient data validation in ChromeDriver (CVE-2020-6484)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient data validation in media router (CVE-2020-6485)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in navigations (CVE-2020-6486)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in downloads (CVE-2020-6487)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in downloads (CVE-2020-6488)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in developer tools (CVE-2020-6489)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient data validation in loader (CVE-2020-6490)

* chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in site information (CVE-2020-6491)

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-2020:2544.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 137410

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2544.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/17/2020

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: High

Score: 7.3

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-2020-6496

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.6

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-6493

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: 6/15/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6465, CVE-2020-6466, CVE-2020-6467, CVE-2020-6468, CVE-2020-6469, CVE-2020-6470, CVE-2020-6471, CVE-2020-6472, CVE-2020-6473, CVE-2020-6474, CVE-2020-6475, CVE-2020-6476, CVE-2020-6478, CVE-2020-6479, CVE-2020-6480, CVE-2020-6481, CVE-2020-6482, CVE-2020-6483, CVE-2020-6484, CVE-2020-6485, CVE-2020-6486, CVE-2020-6487, CVE-2020-6488, CVE-2020-6489, CVE-2020-6490, CVE-2020-6491, CVE-2020-6493, CVE-2020-6494, CVE-2020-6495, CVE-2020-6496

IAVA: 2020-A-0220-S, 2020-A-0241-S

RHSA: 2020:2544

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