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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Chromium vulnerabilities (USN-5949-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 172511

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5949-1 advisory.

 - 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)

 - 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)

 - Use after free in Swiftshader in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-1213)

 - Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-1214)

 - Type confusion in CSS in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-1215)

 - Use after free in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker who had convienced the user to engage in direct UI interaction to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-1216)

 - Use after free in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-1218)

 - Heap buffer overflow in Metrics in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 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-2023-1219)

 - Heap buffer overflow in UMA in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 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-2023-1220)

 - Insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions API in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2023-1221)

 - Heap buffer overflow in Web Audio API in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2023-1222)

 - Insufficient policy enforcement in Web Payments API in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity:
 Medium) (CVE-2023-1224)

 - Insufficient policy enforcement in Web Payments API in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker to bypass content security policy via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity:
 Medium) (CVE-2023-1226)

 - Inappropriate implementation in Permission prompts in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity:
 Medium) (CVE-2023-1229)

 - Insufficient policy enforcement in Resource Timing in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from API via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low) (CVE-2023-1232)

 - Insufficient policy enforcement in Resource Timing in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to obtain potentially sensitive information from API via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: Low) (CVE-2023-1233)

 - Type confusion in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted UI interaction.
 (Chromium security severity: Low) (CVE-2023-1235)

 - Inappropriate implementation in Internals in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker to spoof the origin of an iframe via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low) (CVE-2023-1236)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5949-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 172511

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5949-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/14/2023

Updated: 10/24/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-1222

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:chromium-browser, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:chromium-browser-l10n, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:chromium-chromedriver, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:chromium-codecs-ffmpeg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/22/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-0928, CVE-2023-0929, CVE-2023-0930, CVE-2023-0931, CVE-2023-0933, CVE-2023-0941, CVE-2023-1213, CVE-2023-1214, CVE-2023-1215, CVE-2023-1216, CVE-2023-1218, CVE-2023-1219, CVE-2023-1220, CVE-2023-1221, CVE-2023-1222, CVE-2023-1224, CVE-2023-1226, CVE-2023-1229, CVE-2023-1232, CVE-2023-1233, CVE-2023-1235, CVE-2023-1236

IAVA: 2023-A-0131-S

USN: 5949-1