Fedora 24 : chromium (2016-e9798eaaa3)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 92962

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

On 2016-08-04 Google released Chrome 52.0.2743.116 which fixes at least 8 security issues: CVE-2016-5141, CVE-2016-5142, CVE-2016-5139, CVE-2016-5140, CVE-2016-5145, CVE-2016-5143 and CVE-2016-5144.

Additionally, this update :

- Splits libmedia and libffmpeg into the libs-media subpackage, so that it can be replaced by non-Fedora repos to provide additional codecs.

- Enables gtk3 support

- Adds additional ICU Text codec aliases (from openSUSE via Russian Fedora)

- Uses PIE in the Linux sandbox (from openSUSE via Russian Fedora)

- Enables ARM CPU detection for webrtc (from archlinux via Russian Fedora)

- Does not force -m32 in icu compile on ARM (from archlinux via Russian Fedora)

- Enables fpic on linux

- Enables hidpi

- Enables touch_ui

- Adds chromedriver subpackage (from Russian Fedora)

- Sets default master_preferences location to /etc/chromium (and includes master_preferences file)

- Creates PepperFlash directory where plugin needs to live if user has it

- Improves translations in chromium-browser.desktop (from Russian Fedora)

- Improves translation in Appinfo xml file (thanks to Richard Hughes)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected chromium package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-e9798eaaa3

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 92962

File Name: fedora_2016-e9798eaaa3.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/15/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:chromium, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5139, CVE-2016-5140, CVE-2016-5141, CVE-2016-5142, CVE-2016-5143, CVE-2016-5144, CVE-2016-5145