openSUSE Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-SU-2013:1194-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 75085

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

- Update to 30.0.1553

- Bug and stability fixes

- Includes security update for v8 (bnc821601)

- CVE-2013-2838 Denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors

- Add the flag --disable-gpu-sandbox to prevent crashes and/or slowness. The GPU Sandbox is a new sandbox introduces in M28 and is currently causing issues (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=2550 63)

Solution

Update the affected chromium packages.

See Also

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=255063

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=821601

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00049.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 75085

File Name: openSUSE-2013-579.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromedriver, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromedriver-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-desktop-gnome, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-desktop-kde, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-ffmpegsumo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-suid-helper, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium-suid-helper-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/4/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-2838