Fedora 41 : chromium (2025-e94782e579)

high Nessus Plugin ID 232541

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-e94782e579 advisory.

Update to 134.0.6998.35

* CVE-2025-1914: Out of bounds read in V8
* CVE-2025-1915: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in DevTools
* CVE-2025-1916: Use after free in Profiles
* CVE-2025-1917: Inappropriate Implementation in Browser UI
* CVE-2025-1918: Out of bounds read in PDFium
* CVE-2025-1919: Out of bounds read in Media
* CVE-2025-1921: Inappropriate Implementation in Media Stream
* CVE-2025-1922: Inappropriate Implementation in Selection
* CVE-2025-1923: Inappropriate Implementation in Permission Prompts

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-2025-e94782e579

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 232541

File Name: fedora_2025-e94782e579.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/10/2025

Updated: 3/10/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

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-2025-1916

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-2025-1919

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:chromium, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/4/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-1914, CVE-2025-1915, CVE-2025-1916, CVE-2025-1917, CVE-2025-1918, CVE-2025-1919, CVE-2025-1921, CVE-2025-1922, CVE-2025-1923