Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202401-34 (Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge:
Multiple Vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and its derivatives. Please review the CVE     identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-0b39dc9302 advisory.

    update to 118.0.5993.117. Security release for CVE-2023-5472

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    Update to 118.0.5993.88

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    Update to 118.0.5993.70. Include following security fixes:

        - CVE-2023-5218: Use after free in Site Isolation.
        - CVE-2023-5487: Inappropriate implementation in Fullscreen.
        - CVE-2023-5484: Inappropriate implementation in Navigation.
        - CVE-2023-5475: Inappropriate implementation in DevTools.
        - CVE-2023-5483: Inappropriate implementation in Intents.
        - CVE-2023-5481: Inappropriate implementation in Downloads.
        - CVE-2023-5476: Use after free in Blink History.
        - CVE-2023-5474: Heap buffer overflow in PDF.
        - CVE-2023-5479: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions API.
        - CVE-2023-5485: Inappropriate implementation in Autofill.
        - CVE-2023-5478: Inappropriate implementation in Autofill.
        - CVE-2023-5477: Inappropriate implementation in Installer.
        - CVE-2023-5486: Inappropriate implementation in Input.
        - CVE-2023-5473: Use after free in Cast.


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    update to 117.0.5938.149.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2023:0353-1 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2023:0354-1 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-7f87c8b975 advisory.

    update to 118.0.5993.117. Security release for CVE-2023-5472

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-a9062a0411 advisory.

    update to 118.0.5993.117. Security release for CVE-2023-5472

    ----

    Update to 118.0.5993.88

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

The remote Debian 11 / 12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5536 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the db33e250-74f7-11ee-8290-a8a1599412c6 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Microsoft Edge installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 118.0.2088.76. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the October 27, 2023 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

  - Use After Free vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application     denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a     victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2023-44323)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE- SU-2023:0325-1 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue 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 118.0.5993.117. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 2023_10_stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 118.0.5993.117. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 2023_10_stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24 advisory.

  - Use after free in Profiles in Google Chrome prior to 118.0.5993.117 allowed a remote attacker to     potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)     (CVE-2023-5472)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
189844	GLSA-202401-34 : Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge: Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	critical
185166	Fedora 39 : chromium (2023-0b39dc9302)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
184438	openSUSE 15 Security Update : opera (openSUSE-SU-2023:0353-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
184437	openSUSE 15 Security Update : opera (openSUSE-SU-2023:0354-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
184309	Fedora 37 : chromium (2023-7f87c8b975)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
183998	Fedora 38 : chromium (2023-a9062a0411)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
183985	Debian DSA-5536-1 : chromium - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
183983	FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (db33e250-74f7-11ee-8290-a8a1599412c6)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	Local	high
183979	Microsoft Edge (Chromium) < 118.0.2088.76 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	Local	high
183955	openSUSE 15 Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-SU-2023:0325-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high
183807	Google Chrome < 118.0.5993.117 Vulnerability	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	Local	high
183806	Google Chrome < 118.0.5993.117 Vulnerability	Nessus	Windows	Local	high

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