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Fedora 24 : chromium (2016-d61c4f72da)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 94080

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2016-5177, CVE-2016-5178

https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/09/stable-channel-updat e-for-desktop_29.html

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

Solution

Update the affected chromium package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-d61c4f72da

http://www.nessus.org/u?df8742a0

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 94080

File Name: fedora_2016-d61c4f72da.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/17/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:chromium, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/23/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5177, CVE-2016-5178