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Fedora 33 : chromium (2020-f43efd09e8)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144036

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to 87.0.4280.88. As with pretty much every chromium release ever, this fixes some security bugs. This batch is :

CVE-2020-16037 CVE-2020-16038 CVE-2020-16039 CVE-2020-16040 CVE-2020-16041 CVE-2020-16042

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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Solution

Update the affected chromium package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-f43efd09e8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144036

File Name: fedora_2020-f43efd09e8.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/10/2020

Updated: 2/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-16039

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:fedoraproject:fedora:chromium, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:33

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/8/2021

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Google Chrome versions before 87.0.4280.88 integer overflow during SimplfiedLowering phase)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-16037, CVE-2020-16038, CVE-2020-16039, CVE-2020-16040, CVE-2020-16041, CVE-2020-16042

FEDORA: 2020-f43efd09e8

IAVA: 2020-A-0571-S