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Fedora 38 : chromium (2024-a6c2300bca)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 187666

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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-2024-a6c2300bca advisory.

 update to 120.0.6099.199


 - CVE-2023-6879 aom: heap-buffer-overflow on frame size change
 - CVE-2023-7104 sqlite: heap-buffer-overflow at sessionfuzz
 - CVE-2024-0222: Use after free in ANGLE
 - CVE-2024-0223: Heap buffer overflow in ANGLE
 - CVE-2024-0224: Use after free in WebAudio
 - CVE-2024-0225: Use after free in WebGPU


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-2024-a6c2300bca

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 187666

File Name: fedora_2024-a6c2300bca.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2024

Updated: 11/15/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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-2024-0225

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-6879

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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/27/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6879, CVE-2023-7104, CVE-2024-0222, CVE-2024-0223, CVE-2024-0224, CVE-2024-0225