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Fedora 40 : chromium (2024-0a4a65f805)

high Nessus Plugin ID 207267

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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-2024-0a4a65f805 advisory.

 update to 128.0.6613.137

 * High CVE-2024-8636: Heap buffer overflow in Skia
 * High CVE-2024-8637: Use after free in Media Router
 * High CVE-2024-8638: Type Confusion in V8
 * High CVE-2024-8639: Use after free in Autofill

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-2024-0a4a65f805

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 207267

File Name: fedora_2024-0a4a65f805.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/14/2024

Updated: 9/14/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless 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-2024-8639

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:40, 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: 9/12/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/10/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-43796, CVE-2024-45590, CVE-2024-8636, CVE-2024-8637, CVE-2024-8638, CVE-2024-8639