SUSE SLES12 Security Update : Chromium (SUSE-SU-2016:1060-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 90585

Synopsis

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

Description

Chromium was updated to 50.0.2661.75 to fix the following vulnerabilities :

- CVE-2016-1651: Out-of-bounds read in Pdfium JPEG2000 decoding

- CVE-2016-1652: Universal XSS in extension bindings

- CVE-2016-1653: Out-of-bounds write in V8

- CVE-2016-1654: Uninitialized memory read in media

- CVE-2016-1655: Use-after-free related to extensions

- CVE-2016-1656: Android downloaded file path restriction bypass

- CVE-2016-1657: Address bar spoofing

- CVE-2016-1658: Potential leak of sensitive information to malicious extensions

- CVE-2016-1659: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 :

zypper in -t patch 4965=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975572

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1651/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1652/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1653/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1654/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1655/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1656/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1657/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1658/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1659/

http://www.nessus.org/u?9a0cc2bc

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 90585

File Name: suse_SU-2016-1060-1.nasl

Version: 2.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/19/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium-desktop-gnome, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium-ffmpegsumo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromedriver, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromedriver-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium-desktop-kde

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: 4/16/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1651, CVE-2016-1652, CVE-2016-1653, CVE-2016-1654, CVE-2016-1655, CVE-2016-1656, CVE-2016-1657, CVE-2016-1658, CVE-2016-1659