openSUSE 15 Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-SU-2025:0070-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216653

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2025:0070-1 advisory.

Chromium 133.0.6943.126 (boo#1237343)

- CVE-2025-0999: Heap buffer overflow in V8
- CVE-2025-1426: Heap buffer overflow in GPU
- CVE-2025-1006: Use after free in Network

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 chromedriver and / or chromium packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237071

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1237343

http://www.nessus.org/u?44e2dd1c

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-0999

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1006

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1426

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 216653

File Name: openSUSE-2025-0070-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/22/2025

Updated: 2/22/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2025-0999

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-2025-1426

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromedriver, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-0999, CVE-2025-1006, CVE-2025-1426