Fedora 40 : chromium (2024-5dacab5f00)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194543

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 40 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-5dacab5f00 advisory.

upstream security release 122.0.6261.111

- High CVE-2024-2173: Out of bounds memory access in V8
- High CVE-2024-2174: Inappropriate implementation in V8
- High CVE-2024-2176: Use after free in FedCM

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-2024-5dacab5f00

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194543

File Name: fedora_2024-5dacab5f00.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

Updated: 12/20/2024

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-2024-2176

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40, 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: 3/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-2173, CVE-2024-2174, CVE-2024-2176