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Fedora 40 : chromium (2024-3a1a0a664e)

high Nessus Plugin ID 204982

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-2024-3a1a0a664e advisory.

 update to 127.0.6533.88

 * Critical CVE-2024-6990: Uninitialized Use in Dawn
 * High CVE-2024-7255: Out of bounds read in WebTransport
 * High CVE-2024-7256: Insufficient data validation in Dawn

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 update to 127.0.6533.72

 * CVE-2024-6988: Use after free in Downloads
 * CVE-2024-6989: Use after free in Loader
 * CVE-2024-6991: Use after free in Dawn
 * CVE-2024-6992: Out of bounds memory access in ANGLE
 * CVE-2024-6993: Inappropriate implementation in Canvas
 * CVE-2024-6994: Heap buffer overflow in Layout
 * CVE-2024-6995: Inappropriate implementation in Fullscreen
 * CVE-2024-6996: Race in Frames
 * CVE-2024-6997: Use after free in Tabs
 * CVE-2024-6998: Use after free in User Education
 * CVE-2024-6999: Inappropriate implementation in FedCM
 * CVE-2024-7000: Use after free in CSS. Reported by Anonymous
 * CVE-2024-7001: Inappropriate implementation in HTML
 * CVE-2024-7003: Inappropriate implementation in FedCM
 * CVE-2024-7004: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Safe Browsing
 * CVE-2024-7005: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Safe


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-2024-3a1a0a664e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 204982

File Name: fedora_2024-3a1a0a664e.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2024

Updated: 8/3/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-7255

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-7256

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:chromium, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/1/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-6988, CVE-2024-6989, CVE-2024-6990, CVE-2024-6991, CVE-2024-6992, CVE-2024-6993, CVE-2024-6994, CVE-2024-6995, CVE-2024-6996, CVE-2024-6997, CVE-2024-6998, CVE-2024-6999, CVE-2024-7000, CVE-2024-7001, CVE-2024-7003, CVE-2024-7004, CVE-2024-7005, CVE-2024-7255, CVE-2024-7256