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RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2015:0921)

high Nessus Plugin ID 83173

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important 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).

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Chromium. (CVE-2015-1243, CVE-2015-1250)

This update also fixes the following bug :

* Prior to this update, Chromium did not accept GNOME's system proxy settings due to having GConf support disabled. This issue has been resolved in this update. (BZ#1217065)

All Chromium users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Chromium version 42.0.2311.135, which corrects these issues.
After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected chromium-browser and / or chromium-browser-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2015/04/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0921

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1243

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-1250

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 83173

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-0921.nasl

Version: 2.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/1/2015

Updated: 2/5/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:chromium-browser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:chromium-browser-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.6

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: 4/30/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1243, CVE-2015-1250

BID: 74389

RHSA: 2015:0921