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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Chromium vulnerabilities (USN-5949-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172511

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5949-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Chromium could be made to write out of bounds in several components. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt memory via a crafted HTML page, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-0930, CVE-2023-1219, CVE-2023-1220, CVE-2023-1222)

 It was discovered that Chromium contained an integer overflow in the PDF component. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt memory via a crafted PDF file, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-0933)

 It was discovered that Chromium did not properly manage memory in several components. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt memory via a crafted HTML page, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-0941, CVE-2023-0928, CVE-2023-0929, CVE-2023-0931, CVE-2023-1213, CVE-2023-1216, CVE-2023-1218)

 It was discovered that Chromium did not correctly distinguish data types in several components. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt memory via a crafted HTML page, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-1214, CVE-2023-1215, CVE-2023-1235)

 It was discovered that Chromium insufficiently enforced policies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass navigation restrictions. (CVE-2023-1221, CVE-2023-1224)

 It was discovered that Chromium insufficiently enforced policies in Web Payments API. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass content security policy via a crafted HTML page. (CVE-2023-1226)

 It was discovered that Chromium contained an inappropriate implementation in the Permission prompts component. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (CVE-2023-1229)

 It was discovered that Chromium insufficiently enforced policies in Resource Timing component. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2023-1232, CVE-2023-1233)

 It was discovered that Chromium contained an inappropriate implementation in the Internals component. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to spoof the origin of an iframe via a crafted HTML page.
 (CVE-2023-1236)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5949-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172511

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5949-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2023

Updated: 8/29/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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-2023-1222

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: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:chromium-chromedriver, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:chromium-codecs-ffmpeg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:chromium-browser-l10n, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:chromium-browser, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0928, CVE-2023-0929, CVE-2023-0930, CVE-2023-0931, CVE-2023-0933, CVE-2023-0941, CVE-2023-1213, CVE-2023-1214, CVE-2023-1215, CVE-2023-1216, CVE-2023-1218, CVE-2023-1219, CVE-2023-1220, CVE-2023-1221, CVE-2023-1222, CVE-2023-1224, CVE-2023-1226, CVE-2023-1229, CVE-2023-1232, CVE-2023-1233, CVE-2023-1235, CVE-2023-1236

IAVA: 2023-A-0131-S

USN: 5949-1