Google Chrome < 38.0.2125.122 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8568

Synopsis

The remote host has a web browser installed that contains an unpatched Flash engine and is thus vulnerable to a number of issues.

Description

Google Chrome comes bundled with Flash player, and the 38.0.2125.122 version of Chrome contains an update to Flash, which resolves the following vulnerabilities:

- Multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-0576, CVE-2014-0581, CVE-2014-8440, CVE-2014-8441)

- Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities could result in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2014-0573, CVE-2014-0588, CVE-2014-8438, CVE-2014-0574)

- Multiple type confusion vulnerabilities could result in arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2014-0577, CVE-2014-0584, CVE-2014-0585, CVE-2014-0586, CVE-2014-0590)

- Multiple heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities can be exploited to execute arbitrary code or elevate privileges. (CVE-2014-0583, CVE-2014-0582, CVE-2014-0589)

- A permission issue that allows a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges. (CVE-2014-8442)

- An information disclosure vulnerability can be exploited to disclose secret session tokens. (CVE-2014-8437)

Additionally a number of undisclosed issues have been fixed.

Solution

Update the Chrome browser to 38.0.2125.122, or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 8568

Family: Web Clients

Published: 11/12/2014

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 79141

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:google:chrome

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2014

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Adobe Flash Player UncompressViaZlibVariant Uninitialized Memory)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0573

BID: 71033

Detections

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