Debian DSA-4330-1 : chromium-browser - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 118719

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

- CVE-2018-5179 Yannic Boneberger discovered an error in the ServiceWorker implementation.

- CVE-2018-17462 Ned Williamson and Niklas Baumstark discovered a way to escape the sandbox.

- CVE-2018-17463 Ned Williamson and Niklas Baumstark discovered a remote code execution issue in the v8 JavaScript library.

- CVE-2018-17464 xisigr discovered a URL spoofing issue.

- CVE-2018-17465 Lin Zuojian discovered a use-after-free issue in the v8 JavaScript library.

- CVE-2018-17466 Omair discovered a memory corruption issue in the angle library.

- CVE-2018-17467 Khalil Zhani discovered a URL spoofing issue.

- CVE-2018-17468 Jams Lee discovered an information disclosure issue.

- CVE-2018-17469 Zhen Zhou discovered a buffer overflow issue in the pdfium library.

- CVE-2018-17470 Zhe Jin discovered a memory corruption issue in the GPU backend implementation.

- CVE-2018-17471 Lnyas Zhang discovered an issue with the full screen user interface.

- CVE-2018-17473 Khalil Zhani discovered a URL spoofing issue.

- CVE-2018-17474 Zhe Jin discovered a use-after-free issue.

- CVE-2018-17475 Vladimir Metnew discovered a URL spoofing issue.

- CVE-2018-17476 Khalil Zhani discovered an issue with the full screen user interface.

- CVE-2018-17477 Aaron Muir Hamilton discovered a user interface spoofing issue in the extensions pane.

This update also fixes a buffer overflow in the embedded lcms library included with chromium.

Solution

Upgrade the chromium-browser packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 70.0.3538.67-1~deb9u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 118719

File Name: debian_DSA-4330.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 11/5/2018

Updated: 6/9/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17474

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 9.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-browser, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/2/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2018

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 6/22/2022

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Google Chrome 67, 68 and 69 Object.create exploit)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17462, CVE-2018-17463, CVE-2018-17464, CVE-2018-17465, CVE-2018-17466, CVE-2018-17467, CVE-2018-17468, CVE-2018-17469, CVE-2018-17470, CVE-2018-17471, CVE-2018-17473, CVE-2018-17474, CVE-2018-17475, CVE-2018-17476, CVE-2018-17477, CVE-2018-5179

DSA: 4330

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