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CentOS 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2020:1981)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 208468

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1981 advisory.

 - Use after free in storage in Google Chrome prior to 81.0.4044.129 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.
 (CVE-2020-6461)

 - Use after free in task scheduling in Google Chrome prior to 81.0.4044.129 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.
 (CVE-2020-6462)

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-browser package.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1981

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 208468

File Name: centos_RHSA-2020-1981.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/9/2024

Updated: 10/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-6462

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:chromium-browser, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/27/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-6461, CVE-2020-6462

RHSA: 2020:1981