Debian DSA-5359-1 : chromium - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 171897

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-5359 advisory.

- Use after free in Web Payments API in Google Chrome on Android prior to 110.0.5481.177 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-0927)

- Use after free in SwiftShader in Google Chrome prior to 110.0.5481.177 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-0928)

- Use after free in Vulkan in Google Chrome prior to 110.0.5481.177 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-0929)

- Heap buffer overflow in Video in Google Chrome prior to 110.0.5481.177 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-0930)

- Use after free in Video in Google Chrome prior to 110.0.5481.177 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-0931)

- Use after free in WebRTC in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 110.0.5481.177 allowed a remote attacker who convinced the user to engage in specific UI interactions to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-0932)

- Integer overflow in PDF in Google Chrome prior to 110.0.5481.177 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2023-0933)

- Use after free in Prompts in Google Chrome prior to 110.0.5481.177 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical) (CVE-2023-0941)

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 110.0.5481.177-1~deb11u1.

See Also

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5359

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-0927

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-0928

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-0929

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-0930

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-0931

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-0932

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-0933

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-0941

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 171897

File Name: debian_DSA-5359.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2023

Updated: 2/28/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2023-0941

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/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, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-driver, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-l10n, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-sandbox, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:chromium-shell, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0927, CVE-2023-0928, CVE-2023-0929, CVE-2023-0930, CVE-2023-0931, CVE-2023-0932, CVE-2023-0933, CVE-2023-0941