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Fedora 38 : chromium (2023-a32ad3e643)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186701

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-a32ad3e643 advisory.

 Update to 120.0.6099.62, upstream release fixes follow security issues:

 * High CVE-2023-6508: Use after free in Media Stream
 * High CVE-2023-6509: Use after free in Side Panel Search
 * Medium CVE-2023-6510: Use after free in Media Capture
 * Low CVE-2023-6511: Inappropriate implementation in Autofill
 * Low CVE-2023-6512: Inappropriate implementation in Web Browser UI


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 chromium package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-a32ad3e643

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 186701

File Name: fedora_2023-a32ad3e643.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/8/2023

Updated: 11/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, continuous_assessment, 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-2023-6510

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:chromium

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6508, CVE-2023-6509, CVE-2023-6510, CVE-2023-6511, CVE-2023-6512