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Fedora 41 : chromium (2025-8fbc37e703)

high Nessus Plugin ID 235161

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-8fbc37e703 advisory.

 Update to 136.0.7103.59

 * CVE-2025-4096: Heap buffer overflow in HTML
 * CVE-2025-4050: Out of bounds memory access in DevTools
 * CVE-2025-4051: Insufficient data validation in DevTools
 * CVE-2025-4052: Inappropriate implementation in DevTools



Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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-2025-8fbc37e703

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 235161

File Name: fedora_2025-8fbc37e703.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/6/2025

Updated: 5/6/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4096

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:fedoraproject:fedora:chromium, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/29/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4050, CVE-2025-4051, CVE-2025-4052, CVE-2025-4096