openSUSE Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-SU-2012:1215-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 74759

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Chromium was updated to 21.0.1180.88 to fix various bugs and security issues. Security fixes and rewards :

Please see the Chromium security page<http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security >for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.

- [$500] [121347<https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail ?id=121347>] Medium CVE-2012-2865: Out-of-bounds read in line breaking. Credit to miaubiz.

- [$1000] [134897<https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail ?id=134897>] High CVE-2012-2866: Bad cast with run-ins.
Credit to miaubiz.

- [135485 <https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=135 485>] Low CVE-2012-2867: Browser crash with SPDY.

- [$500] [136881<https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail ?id=136881>] Medium CVE-2012-2868: Race condition with workers and XHR. Credit to miaubiz.

- [137778 <https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137 778>] High CVE-2012-2869: Avoid stale buffer in URL loading. Credit to Fermin Serna of the Google Security Team.

- [138672 <https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138 672>] [ 140368 <https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140 368>] LowCVE-2012-2870: Lower severity memory management issues in XPath. Credit to Nicolas Gregoire.

- [$1000] [138673<https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail ?id=138673>] High CVE-2012-2871: Bad cast in XSL transforms. Credit to Nicolas Gregoire.

- [$500] [142956<https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail ?id=142956>] Medium CVE-2012-2872: XSS in SSL interstitial. Credit to Emmanuel Bronshtein.

Solution

Update the affected chromium packages.

See Also

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=778005

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=121347

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=134897

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=135485

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136881

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137778

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138672

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138673

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140368

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=142956

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-09/msg00080.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 74759

File Name: openSUSE-2012-619.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromedriver, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromedriver-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-desktop-kde, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-suid-helper, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-suid-helper-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-desktop-gnome, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2865, CVE-2012-2866, CVE-2012-2867, CVE-2012-2868, CVE-2012-2869, CVE-2012-2870, CVE-2012-2871, CVE-2012-2872