Incorrect object lifecycle handling in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.98 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201908-18 (Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and Google       Chrome. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers and Google Chrome       Releases for details.
  Impact :

    Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update to Chromium version 71.0.3578.80 fixes security issues and bugs.

Security issues fixed (boo#1118529) :

  - CVE-2018-17480: Out of bounds write in V8

  - CVE-2018-17481: Use after frees in PDFium

  - CVE-2018-18335: Heap buffer overflow in Skia

  - CVE-2018-18336: Use after free in PDFium

  - CVE-2018-18337: Use after free in Blink

  - CVE-2018-18338: Heap buffer overflow in Canvas

  - CVE-2018-18339: Use after free in WebAudio

  - CVE-2018-18340: Use after free in MediaRecorder

  - CVE-2018-18341: Heap buffer overflow in Blink

  - CVE-2018-18342: Out of bounds write in V8

  - CVE-2018-18343: Use after free in Skia

  - CVE-2018-18344: Inappropriate implementation in     Extensions

  - Multiple issues in SQLite via WebSQL

  - CVE-2018-18345: Inappropriate implementation in Site     Isolation

  - CVE-2018-18346: Incorrect security UI in Blink

  - CVE-2018-18347: Inappropriate implementation in     Navigation

  - CVE-2018-18348: Inappropriate implementation in Omnibox

  - CVE-2018-18349: Insufficient policy enforcement in Blink

  - CVE-2018-18350: Insufficient policy enforcement in Blink

  - CVE-2018-18351: Insufficient policy enforcement in     Navigation

  - CVE-2018-18352: Inappropriate implementation in Media

  - CVE-2018-18353: Inappropriate implementation in Network     Authentication

  - CVE-2018-18354: Insufficient data validation in Shell     Integration

  - CVE-2018-18355: Insufficient policy enforcement in URL     Formatter

  - CVE-2018-18356: Use after free in Skia

  - CVE-2018-18357: Insufficient policy enforcement in URL     Formatter

  - CVE-2018-18358: Insufficient policy enforcement in Proxy

  - CVE-2018-18359: Out of bounds read in V8

  - Inappropriate implementation in PDFium

  - Use after free in Extensions

  - Inappropriate implementation in Navigation

  - Insufficient policy enforcement in Navigation

  - Insufficient policy enforcement in URL Formatter

  - Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other     initiatives

The following changes are included :

  - advertisements posing as error messages are now blocked

  - Automatic playing of content at page load mostly     disabled

  - New JavaScript API for relative time display

This update to Chromium 71.0.3578.98 fixes on security issue.

  - CVE-2018-17481: Use after free in PDFium - a follow-up     fix to Chromiun 70 (boo#1119364)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  - CVE-2018-17481     A use-after-free issue was discovered in the pdfium     library.

  - CVE-2019-5754     Klzgrad discovered an error in the QUIC networking     implementation.

  - CVE-2019-5755     Jay Bosamiya discovered an implementation error in the     v8 JavaScript library.

  - CVE-2019-5756     A use-after-free issue was discovered in the pdfium     library.

  - CVE-2019-5757     Alexandru Pitis discovered a type confusion error in the     SVG image format implementation.

  - CVE-2019-5758     Zhe Jin discovered a use-after-free issue in     blink/webkit.

  - CVE-2019-5759     Almog Benin discovered a use-after-free issue when     handling HTML pages containing select elements.

  - CVE-2019-5760     Zhe Jin discovered a use-after-free issue in the WebRTC     implementation.

  - CVE-2019-5762     A use-after-free issue was discovered in the pdfium     library.

  - CVE-2019-5763     Guang Gon discovered an input validation error in the v8     JavaScript library.

  - CVE-2019-5764     Eyal Itkin discovered a use-after-free issue in the     WebRTC implementation.

  - CVE-2019-5765     Sergey Toshin discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2019-5766     David Erceg discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2019-5767     Haoran Lu, Yifan Zhang, Luyi Xing, and Xiaojing Liao     reported an error in the WebAPKs user interface.

  - CVE-2019-5768     Rob Wu discovered a policy enforcement error in the     developer tools.

  - CVE-2019-5769     Guy Eshel discovered an input validation error in     blink/webkit.

  - CVE-2019-5770     hemidallt discovered a buffer overflow issue in the     WebGL implementation.

  - CVE-2019-5772     Zhen Zhou discovered a use-after-free issue in the     pdfium library.

  - CVE-2019-5773     Yongke Wong discovered an input validation error in the     IndexDB implementation.

  - CVE-2019-5774     Junghwan Kang and Juno Im discovered an input validation     error in the SafeBrowsing implementation.

  - CVE-2019-5775     evil1m0 discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2019-5776     Lnyas Zhang discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2019-5777     Khalil Zhani discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2019-5778     David Erceg discovered a policy enforcement error in the     Extensions implementation.

  - CVE-2019-5779     David Erceg discovered a policy enforcement error in the     ServiceWorker implementation.

  - CVE-2019-5780     Andreas Hegenberg discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2019-5781     evil1m0 discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2019-5782     Qixun Zhao discovered an implementation error in the v8     JavaScript library.

  - CVE-2019-5783     Shintaro Kobori discovered an input validation error in     the developer tools.

  - CVE-2019-5784     Lucas Pinheiro discovered an implementation error in the     v8 JavaScript library.

Update to Chromium 71. Fixes CVE-2018-17480 CVE-2018-17481 CVE-2018-18335 CVE-2018-18336 CVE-2018-18337 CVE-2018-18338 CVE-2018-18339 CVE-2018-18340 CVE-2018-18341 CVE-2018-18342 CVE-2018-18343 CVE-2018-18344 CVE-2018-18345 CVE-2018-18346 CVE-2018-18347 CVE-2018-18348 CVE-2018-18349 CVE-2018-18350 CVE-2018-18351 CVE-2018-18352 CVE-2018-18353 CVE-2018-18354 CVE-2018-18355 CVE-2018-18356 CVE-2018-18357 CVE-2018-18358 CVE-2018-18359

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Google Chrome Releases reports :

1 security fix contributed by external researches :

- High CVE-2018-17481: Use after free in PDFium

Google Chrome Releases reports :

43 security fixes in this release, including :

- High CVE-2018-17480: Out of bounds write in V8

- High CVE-2018-17481: Use after free in PDFium

- High CVE-2018-18335: Heap buffer overflow in Skia

- High CVE-2018-18336: Use after free in PDFium

- High CVE-2018-18337: Use after free in Blink

- High CVE-2018-18338: Heap buffer overflow in Canvas

- High CVE-2018-18339: Use after free in WebAudio

- High CVE-2018-18340: Use after free in MediaRecorder

- High CVE-2018-18341: Heap buffer overflow in Blink

- High CVE-2018-18342: Out of bounds write in V8

- High CVE-2018-18343: Use after free in Skia

- High CVE-2018-18344: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions

- High To be allocated: Multiple issues in SQLite via WebSQL

- Medium CVE-2018-18345: Inappropriate implementation in Site Isolation

- Medium CVE-2018-18346: Incorrect security UI in Blink

- Medium CVE-2018-18347: Inappropriate implementation in Navigation

- Medium CVE-2018-18348: Inappropriate implementation in Omnibox

- Medium CVE-2018-18349: Insufficient policy enforcement in Blink

- Medium CVE-2018-18350: Insufficient policy enforcement in Blink

- Medium CVE-2018-18351: Insufficient policy enforcement in Navigation

- Medium CVE-2018-18352: Inappropriate implementation in Media

- Medium CVE-2018-18353: Inappropriate implementation in Network Authentication

- Medium CVE-2018-18354: Insufficient data validation in Shell Integration

- Medium CVE-2018-18355: Insufficient policy enforcement in URL Formatter

- Medium CVE-2018-18356: Use after free in Skia

- Medium CVE-2018-18357: Insufficient policy enforcement in URL Formatter

- Medium CVE-2018-18358: Insufficient policy enforcement in Proxy

- Medium CVE-2018-18359: Out of bounds read in V8

- Low To be allocated: Inappropriate implementation in PDFium

- Low To be allocated: Use after free in Extensions

- Low To be allocated: Inappropriate implementation in Navigation

- Low To be allocated: Inappropriate implementation in Navigation

- Low To be allocated: Insufficient policy enforcement in Navigation

- Low To be allocated: Insufficient policy enforcement in URL Formatter

- Medium To be allocated: Insufficient policy enforcement in Payments

- Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives

This update to Chromium 71.0.3578.98 fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed (boo#1118529) :

  - CVE-2018-17480: Out of bounds write in V8

  - CVE-2018-17481: Use after frees in PDFium

  - CVE-2018-18335: Heap buffer overflow in Skia

  - CVE-2018-18336: Use after free in PDFium

  - CVE-2018-18337: Use after free in Blink

  - CVE-2018-18338: Heap buffer overflow in Canvas

  - CVE-2018-18339: Use after free in WebAudio

  - CVE-2018-18340: Use after free in MediaRecorder

  - CVE-2018-18341: Heap buffer overflow in Blink

  - CVE-2018-18342: Out of bounds write in V8

  - CVE-2018-18343: Use after free in Skia

  - CVE-2018-18344: Inappropriate implementation in     Extensions

  - Multiple issues in SQLite via WebSQL

  - CVE-2018-18345: Inappropriate implementation in Site     Isolation

  - CVE-2018-18346: Incorrect security UI in Blink

  - CVE-2018-18347: Inappropriate implementation in     Navigation

  - CVE-2018-18348: Inappropriate implementation in Omnibox

  - CVE-2018-18349: Insufficient policy enforcement in Blink

  - CVE-2018-18350: Insufficient policy enforcement in Blink

  - CVE-2018-18351: Insufficient policy enforcement in     Navigation

  - CVE-2018-18352: Inappropriate implementation in Media

  - CVE-2018-18353: Inappropriate implementation in Network     Authentication

  - CVE-2018-18354: Insufficient data validation in Shell     Integration

  - CVE-2018-18355: Insufficient policy enforcement in URL     Formatter

  - CVE-2018-18356: Use after free in Skia

  - CVE-2018-18357: Insufficient policy enforcement in URL     Formatter

  - CVE-2018-18358: Insufficient policy enforcement in Proxy

  - CVE-2018-18359: Out of bounds read in V8

  - Inappropriate implementation in PDFium

  - Use after free in Extensions

  - Inappropriate implementation in Navigation

  - Insufficient policy enforcement in Navigation

  - Insufficient policy enforcement in URL Formatter

  - Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other     initiatives

  - CVE-2018-17481: Use after free in PDFium (boo#1119364)

The following changes are included :

  - advertisements posing as error messages are now blocked

  - Automatic playing of content at page load mostly     disabled

  - New JavaScript API for relative time display

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 71.0.3578.98. It is, therefore, affected by a use after free vulnerability in pdfium. This could allow a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted pdf file as noted in Google Chrome stable channel update release notes for 2018/12/12.
Please refer to the release notes for additional information.

Note that Nessus has not attempted to exploit these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote macOS host is prior to 71.0.3578.98. It is, therefore, affected by a use after free vulnerability in pdfium. This could allow a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted pdf file as noted in Google Chrome stable channel update release notes for 2018/12/12.
Please refer to the release notes for additional information.

Note that Nessus has not attempted to exploit these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Chromium is an open source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

This update upgrades Chromium to version 71.0.3578.80.

Security Fix(es) :

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in V8 (CVE-2018-17480)

* chromium-browser: Use after frees in PDFium (CVE-2018-17481)

* chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in Skia (CVE-2018-18335)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in PDFium (CVE-2018-18336)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in Blink (CVE-2018-18337)

* chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in Canvas (CVE-2018-18338)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in WebAudio (CVE-2018-18339)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in MediaRecorder (CVE-2018-18340)

* chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in Blink (CVE-2018-18341)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in V8 (CVE-2018-18342)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in Skia (CVE-2018-18343)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions (CVE-2018-18344)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in Site Isolation (CVE-2018-18345)

* chromium-browser: Incorrect security UI in Blink (CVE-2018-18346)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in Navigation (CVE-2018-18347)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in Omnibox (CVE-2018-18348)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in Blink (CVE-2018-18349)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in Blink (CVE-2018-18350)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in Navigation (CVE-2018-18351)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in Media (CVE-2018-18352)

* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in Network Authentication (CVE-2018-18353)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient data validation in Shell Integration (CVE-2018-18354)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in URL Formatter (CVE-2018-18355)

* chromium-browser: Use after free in Skia (CVE-2018-18356)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in URL Formatter (CVE-2018-18357)

* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in Proxy (CVE-2018-18358)

* chromium-browser: Out of bounds read in V8 (CVE-2018-18359)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 71.0.3578.80. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as noted in Google Chrome stable channel update release notes for 2018/12/04. Please refer to the release notes for additional information. Note that Nessus has not attempted to exploit these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self- reported version number.

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote macOS host is prior to 71.0.3578.80. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as noted in Google Chrome stable channel update release notes for 2018/12/04. Please refer to the release notes for additional information. Note that Nessus has not attempted to exploit these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self- reported version number.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser.

  - CVE-2018-17480     Guang Gong discovered an out-of-bounds write issue in     the v8 JavaScript library.

  - CVE-2018-17481     Several use-after-free issues were discovered in the     pdfium library.

  - CVE-2018-18335     A buffer overflow issue was discovered in the skia     library.

  - CVE-2018-18336     Huyna discovered a use-after-free issue in the pdfium     library.

  - CVE-2018-18337     cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in     blink/webkit.

  - CVE-2018-18338     Zhe Jin discovered a buffer overflow issue in the canvas     renderer.

  - CVE-2018-18339     cloudfuzzer discovered a use-after-free issue in the     WebAudio implementation.

  - CVE-2018-18340     A use-after-free issue was discovered in the     MediaRecorder implementation.

  - CVE-2018-18341     cloudfuzzer discovered a buffer overflow issue in     blink/webkit.

  - CVE-2018-18342     Guang Gong discovered an out-of-bounds write issue in     the v8 JavaScript library.

  - CVE-2018-18343     Tran Tien Hung discovered a use-after-free issue in the     skia library.

  - CVE-2018-18344     Jann Horn discovered an error in the Extensions     implementation.

  - CVE-2018-18345     Masato Kinugawa and Jun Kokatsu discovered an error in     the Site Isolation feature.

  - CVE-2018-18346     Luan Herrera discovered an error in the user interface.

  - CVE-2018-18347     Luan Herrera discovered an error in the Navigation     implementation.

  - CVE-2018-18348     Ahmed Elsobky discovered an error in the omnibox     implementation.

  - CVE-2018-18349     David Erceg discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2018-18350     Jun Kokatsu discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2018-18351     Jun Kokatsu discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2018-18352     Jun Kokatsu discovered an error in Media handling.

  - CVE-2018-18353     Wenxu Wu discovered an error in the network     authentication implementation.

  - CVE-2018-18354     Wenxu Wu discovered an error related to integration with     GNOME Shell.

  - CVE-2018-18355     evil1m0 discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2018-18356     Tran Tien Hung discovered a use-after-free issue in the     skia library.

  - CVE-2018-18357     evil1m0 discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2018-18358     Jann Horn discovered a policy enforcement error.

  - CVE-2018-18359     cyrilliu discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in the     v8 JavaScript library.

Several additional security relevant issues are also fixed in this update that have not yet received CVE identifiers.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
127967	GLSA-201908-18 : Chromium, Google Chrome: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
123398	openSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2019-977)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
123150	openSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2019-1006)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
122272	Debian DSA-4395-1 : chromium - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
121194	Fedora 28 : chromium (2019-348547a32d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
120971	FreeBSD : chromium -- Use after free in PDFium (720590df-10eb-11e9-b407-080027ef1a23)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
120969	FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (546d4dd4-10ea-11e9-b407-080027ef1a23)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
120966	Fedora 29 : chromium (2019-859384e002)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
119714	openSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2018-1557)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
119706	openSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2018-1546)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
119684	Google Chrome < 71.0.3578.98	Nessus	Windows	high
119683	Google Chrome < 71.0.3578.98	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
119568	RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2018:3803)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
119558	Google Chrome < 71.0.3578.80 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	high
119557	Google Chrome < 71.0.3578.80 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
119549	openSUSE Security Update : Chromium (openSUSE-2018-1521)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
119509	Debian DSA-4352-1 : chromium-browser - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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