RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2017:3479)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105345

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for chromium-browser.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3479 advisory.

- chromium-browser: uxss in v8 (CVE-2017-15429)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL chromium-browser package based on the guidance in RHSA-2017:3479.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?125c6f30

http://www.nessus.org/u?6b3d37bb

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3479

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1526405

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105345

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2017-3479.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/18/2017

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15429

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:chromium-browser, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/18/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/28/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15429

RHSA: 2017:3479