Debian DSA-5275-1 : chromium - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 167275

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5275 advisory.

- Use after free in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 107.0.5304.106 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2022-3885)

- Use after free in Speech Recognition in Google Chrome prior to 107.0.5304.106 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2022-3886)

- Use after free in Web Workers in Google Chrome prior to 107.0.5304.106 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2022-3887)

- Use after free in WebCodecs in Google Chrome prior to 107.0.5304.106 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2022-3888)

- Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 107.0.5304.106 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2022-3889)

- Heap buffer overflow in Crashpad in Google Chrome on Android prior to 107.0.5304.106 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2022-3890)

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

Solution

Upgrade the chromium packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 107.0.5304.110-1~deb11u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1015931

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/chromium

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5275

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-3885

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-3886

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-3887

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-3888

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-3889

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-3890

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/chromium

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 167275

File Name: debian_DSA-5275.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2022

Updated: 10/25/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-3890

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-driver, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-l10n, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-shell, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-sandbox

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-3885, CVE-2022-3886, CVE-2022-3887, CVE-2022-3888, CVE-2022-3889, CVE-2022-3890

IAVA: 2022-A-0482-S