Debian DSA-5134-1 : chromium - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 161150

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5134 advisory.

- Use after free in Web UI Diagnostics in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 101.0.4951.64 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI interactions to potentially exploit heap corruption via specific user interaction. (CVE-2022-1641)

- Use after free in Sharesheet in Google Chrome on Chrome OS prior to 101.0.4951.64 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI interactions to potentially exploit heap corruption via specific user interactions. (CVE-2022-1633)

- Use after free in Browser UI in Google Chrome prior to 101.0.4951.64 allowed a remote attacker who had convinced a user to engage in specific UI interaction to potentially exploit heap corruption via specific user interactions. (CVE-2022-1634)

- Use after free in Permission Prompts in Google Chrome prior to 101.0.4951.64 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI interactions to potentially exploit heap corruption via specific user interactions. (CVE-2022-1635)

- Use after free in Performance APIs in Google Chrome prior to 101.0.4951.64 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (CVE-2022-1636)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the chromium packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 101.0.4951.64-1~deb11u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 161150

File Name: debian_DSA-5134.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/13/2022

Updated: 10/27/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1641

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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-l10n, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-shell, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-sandbox, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-driver

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1633, CVE-2022-1634, CVE-2022-1635, CVE-2022-1636, CVE-2022-1637, CVE-2022-1638, CVE-2022-1639, CVE-2022-1640, CVE-2022-1641

IAVA: 2022-A-0208-S

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