Debian dsa-5668 : chromium - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 193664

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5668 advisory.

- Object corruption in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit object corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2024-3832)

- Object corruption in WebAssembly in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit object corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2024-3833)

- Use after free in Downloads in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High) (CVE-2024-3834)

- Use after free in QUIC in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2024-3837)

- Inappropriate implementation in Autofill in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious app to perform UI spoofing via a crafted app. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2024-3838)

- Out of bounds read in Fonts in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2024-3839)

- Insufficient policy enforcement in Site Isolation in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2024-3840)

- Insufficient data validation in Browser Switcher in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker to inject scripts or HTML into a privileged page via a malicious file. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2024-3841)

- Insufficient data validation in Downloads in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker to perform UI spoofing via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium) (CVE-2024-3843)

- Inappropriate implementation in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker to perform UI spoofing via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: Low) (CVE-2024-3844)

- Inappropriate implementation in Networks in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker to bypass mixed content policy via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low) (CVE-2024-3845)

- Inappropriate implementation in Prompts in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to perform UI spoofing via a crafted HTML page.
(Chromium security severity: Low) (CVE-2024-3846)

- Insufficient policy enforcement in WebUI in Google Chrome prior to 124.0.6367.60 allowed a remote attacker to bypass content security policy via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Low) (CVE-2024-3847)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 193664

File Name: debian_DSA-5668.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/20/2024

Updated: 12/20/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.5

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-2024-3837

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: 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:12.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-3832, CVE-2024-3833, CVE-2024-3834, CVE-2024-3837, CVE-2024-3838, CVE-2024-3839, CVE-2024-3840, CVE-2024-3841, CVE-2024-3843, CVE-2024-3844, CVE-2024-3845, CVE-2024-3846, CVE-2024-3847

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