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.

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

high Nessus Plugin ID 172511

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