The Google V8 engine, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 and QtWebEngineCore in Qt before 5.5.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The Google V8 engine, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 and QtWebEngineCore in Qt before 5.5.1,     allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a     crafted web site. (CVE-2015-1290)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Qt 5 was updated to the 5.5.1 release to deliver upstream improvements and fixes to Qt functionality.

The following Security fixes are contained in QtWebEngineCore :

  - ICU: CVE-2014-8146, CVE-2014-8147

  - Blink: CVE-2015-1284, CVE-2015-1291, CVE-2015-1292

  - Skia: CVE-2015-1294

  - V8: CVE-2015-1290

The following packages were rebuilt because they use private headers :

  - calibre

  - fcitx-qt5

  - frameworkintegration

  - kwayland

  - kwin5,

  - lxqt-powermanagement

  - lxqt-qtplugin

Google Chrome Releases reports :

43 security fixes in this release, including :

- [446032] High CVE-2015-1271: Heap-buffer-overflow in pdfium. Credit to cloudfuzzer.

- [459215] High CVE-2015-1273: Heap-buffer-overflow in pdfium. Credit to makosoft.

- [461858] High CVE-2015-1274: Settings allowed executable files to run immediately after download. Credit to andrewm.bpi.

- [462843] High CVE-2015-1275: UXSS in Chrome for Android. Credit to WangTao(neobyte) of Baidu X-Team.

- [472614] High CVE-2015-1276: Use-after-free in IndexedDB. Credit to Collin Payne.

- [483981] High CVE-2015-1279: Heap-buffer-overflow in pdfium. Credit to mlafon.

- [486947] High CVE-2015-1280: Memory corruption in skia. Credit to cloudfuzzer.

- [487155] High CVE-2015-1281: CSP bypass. Credit to Masato Kinugawa.

- [487928] High CVE-2015-1282: Use-after-free in pdfium. Credit to Chamal de Silva.

- [492052] High CVE-2015-1283: Heap-buffer-overflow in expat. Credit to sidhpurwala.huzaifa.

- [493243] High CVE-2015-1284: Use-after-free in blink. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

- [504011] High CVE-2015-1286: UXSS in blink. Credit to anonymous.

- [505374] High CVE-2015-1290: Memory corruption in V8. Credit to Yongjun Liu of NSFOCUS Security Team.

- [419383] Medium CVE-2015-1287: SOP bypass with CSS. Credit to filedescriptor.

- [444573] Medium CVE-2015-1270: Uninitialized memory read in ICU.
Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

- [451456] Medium CVE-2015-1272: Use-after-free related to unexpected GPU process termination. Credit to Chamal de Silva.

- [479743] Medium CVE-2015-1277: Use-after-free in accessibility.
Credit to SkyLined.

- [482380] Medium CVE-2015-1278: URL spoofing using pdf files. Credit to Chamal de Silva.

- [498982] Medium CVE-2015-1285: Information leak in XSS auditor.
Credit to gazheyes.

- [479162] Low CVE-2015-1288: Spell checking dictionaries fetched over HTTP. Credit to mike@michaelruddy.com.

- [512110] CVE-2015-1289: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
264312	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-1290	Nessus	Misc.	high
87627	openSUSE Security Update : Qt 5 (openSUSE-2015-953)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
84994	FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (9d732078-32c7-11e5-b263-00262d5ed8ee)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2015-1290

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

critical