RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2019:3775)

high Nessus Plugin ID 130746

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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 78.0.3904.87.

Security Fix(es) :

* chromium-browser: use-after-free in audio (CVE-2019-13720)

* chromium-browser: use-after-free in PDFium (CVE-2019-13721)

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

Solution

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

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3775

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-13720

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-13721

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 130746

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-3775.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2019

Updated: 1/29/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: E:H/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.4

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

Temporal Vector: E:H/RL:O/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: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/25/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13720, CVE-2019-13721

RHSA: 2019:3775