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Fedora 39 : chromium (2023-1fe02ca797)

high Nessus Plugin ID 186896

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-1fe02ca797 advisory.

 - Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.109 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-6702)

 - Use after free in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.109 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-6703)

 - Use after free in libavif in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.109 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted image file. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-6704)

 - Use after free in WebRTC in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.109 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-6705)

 - Use after free in FedCM in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.109 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI interaction to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
 (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2023-6706)

 - Use after free in CSS in Google Chrome prior to 120.0.6099.109 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2023-6707)

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 chromium package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-1fe02ca797

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 186896

File Name: fedora_2023-1fe02ca797.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/14/2023

Updated: 4/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

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-2023-6707

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:chromium

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-6702, CVE-2023-6703, CVE-2023-6704, CVE-2023-6705, CVE-2023-6706, CVE-2023-6707

FEDORA: 2023-1fe02ca797

IAVA: 2023-A-0693-S