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FreeBSD : electron25 -- Use after free in extensions vulnerability (4281b712-ad6b-4c21-8f66-619a9150691f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 182954

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Synopsis

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

Description

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 4281b712-ad6b-4c21-8f66-619a9150691f advisory.

 - Use after free in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
 (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-5187)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hg3r-958g-g8vq

http://www.nessus.org/u?548a5d31

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 182954

File Name: freebsd_pkg_4281b712ad6b4c218f66619a9150691f.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 10/12/2023

Updated: 10/12/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5187

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:electron25, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/27/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5187