RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2018:0265)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 106574

Synopsis

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

Description

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 64.0.3282.119.

Security Fix(es) :

* Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when visited by the victim. (CVE-2018-6031, CVE-2018-6032, CVE-2018-6033, CVE-2018-6034, CVE-2018-6035, CVE-2018-6036, CVE-2018-6037, CVE-2018-6038, CVE-2018-6039, CVE-2018-6040, CVE-2018-6041, CVE-2018-6042, CVE-2018-6043, CVE-2018-6045, CVE-2018-6046, CVE-2018-6047, CVE-2018-6048, CVE-2018-6049, CVE-2018-6050, CVE-2018-6051, CVE-2018-6052, CVE-2018-6053, CVE-2018-6054)

* To mitigate timing-based side-channel attacks similar to 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown', this update reduces the precision of the timing data provided by the Date object and the performance.now() API, and the V8 JavaScript engine now uses masking of certain addresses and array or string indices.

Solution

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

See Also

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/01/

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018-0265.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6031.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6032.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6033.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6034.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6035.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6036.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6037.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6038.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6039.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6040.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6041.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6042.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6043.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6045.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6046.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6047.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6048.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6049.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6050.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6051.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6052.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6053.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2018-6054.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 106574

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-0265.nasl

Version: $Revision: 3.2 $

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2018/02/02

Modified: 2018/02/05

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

CVSSv2

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

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

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

Exploit Available: false

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2018/02/01

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6031, CVE-2018-6032, CVE-2018-6033, CVE-2018-6034, CVE-2018-6035, CVE-2018-6036, CVE-2018-6037, CVE-2018-6038, CVE-2018-6039, CVE-2018-6040, CVE-2018-6041, CVE-2018-6042, CVE-2018-6043, CVE-2018-6045, CVE-2018-6046, CVE-2018-6047, CVE-2018-6048, CVE-2018-6049, CVE-2018-6050, CVE-2018-6051, CVE-2018-6052, CVE-2018-6053, CVE-2018-6054

RHSA: 2018:0265