The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Mac OS X host is prior to 48.0.2564.116. It is, therefore, affected by an unspecified flaw related to the Blink rendering engine. An attacker can exploit this to bypass same-origin policy restrictions and escape the sandbox, allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  - CVE-2016-1622     It was discovered that a maliciously crafted extension     could bypass the Same Origin Policy.

  - CVE-2016-1623     Mariusz Mlynski discovered a way to bypass the Same     Origin Policy.

  - CVE-2016-1624     lukezli discovered a buffer overflow issue in the Brotli     library.

  - CVE-2016-1625     Jann Horn discovered a way to cause the Chrome Instant     feature to navigate to unintended destinations.

  - CVE-2016-1626     An out-of-bounds read issue was discovered in the     openjpeg library.

  - CVE-2016-1627     It was discovered that the Developer Tools did not     validate URLs.

  - CVE-2016-1628     An out-of-bounds read issue was discovered in the pdfium     library.

  - CVE-2016-1629     A way to bypass the Same Origin Policy was discovered in     Blink/WebKit, along with a way to escape the chromium     sandbox.

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 48.0.2564.116. It is, therefore, affected by an unspecified flaw related to the Blink rendering engine. An attacker can exploit this to bypass same-origin policy restrictions and escape the sandbox, allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

This update contains Chromium 48.0.2564.116 and fixes the following security flaw :

  - CVE-2016-1629: Same-origin bypass in Blink and Sandbox     escape in Chrome. (boo#967376)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201603-09 (Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Chromium web       browser. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the       privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, obtain       sensitive information, or bypass security restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Google Chrome Releases reports :

[583431] Critical CVE-2016-1629: Same-origin bypass in Blink and Sandbox escape in Chrome. Credit to anonymous.

Updated chromium-browser packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Chromium is an open source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

Two flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when visited by the victim. (CVE-2016-1629)

All Chromium users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Chromium version 48.0.2564.116, which corrects these issues.
After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2905-1 advisory.

    A security issue was discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted     website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin restrictions or a sandbox     protection mechanism. (CVE-2016-1629)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update contains Chromium 48.0.2564.116 ans fixes the following security flaw :

  - CVE-2016-1629: Same-origin bypass in Blink and Sandbox     escape in Chrome. (boo#967376)

The version of Google Chrome on the remote host is prior to 48.0.2564.116 and is affected by a flaw in the Blink rendering engine that may allow a context-dependent attacker to bypass the same-origin policy and escape the sandbox allowing the attacker to execute code with elevated privileges. (CVE-2016-1629)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
88957	Google Chrome < 48.0.2564.116 Blink Same-Origin Policy Bypass (Mac OS X)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	2/25/2016	11/20/2019	critical
88869	Debian DSA-3486-1 : chromium-browser - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	2/22/2016	1/11/2021	critical
88956	Google Chrome < 48.0.2564.116 Blink Same-Origin Policy Bypass	Nessus	Windows	2/25/2016	4/11/2022	critical
88924	openSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2016-249)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	2/24/2016	1/19/2021	critical
89902	GLSA-201603-09 : Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	3/14/2016	1/11/2021	critical
88853	FreeBSD : chromium -- same origin bypass (368993bb-d685-11e5-8858-00262d5ed8ee)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	2/19/2016	1/4/2021	critical
88890	RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2016:0286)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	2/23/2016	5/29/2020	critical
88929	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Oxide vulnerability (USN-2905-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	2/24/2016	8/27/2024	critical
88918	openSUSE Security Update : Chromium 48.0.2564.116 (openSUSE-2016-239)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	2/24/2016	1/19/2021	critical
9201	Google Chrome < 48.0.2564.116 Blink Same-Origin Policy Bypass	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	4/5/2016	3/6/2019	high

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