RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2020:3740)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 140587

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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-2020:3740 advisory.

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

This update upgrades Chromium to version 85.0.4183.102.

Security Fix(es):

* chromium-browser: Use after free in video (CVE-2020-6573)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in installer (CVE-2020-6574)

* chromium-browser: Race in Mojo (CVE-2020-6575)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in offscreen canvas (CVE-2020-6576)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in networking (CVE-2020-15959)

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-2020:3740.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 140587

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-3740.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/15/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless 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-2020-6576

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-2020-6573

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: 9/14/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15959, CVE-2020-6573, CVE-2020-6574, CVE-2020-6575, CVE-2020-6576

IAVA: 2020-A-0419-S

RHSA: 2020:3740

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