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FreeBSD : Chrome -- Heap corruption exploitation (4864aec7-3d80-11f0-9a55-b42e991fc52e)

high Nessus Plugin ID 237613

Synopsis

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

Description

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the 4864aec7-3d80-11f0-9a55-b42e991fc52e advisory.

 [email protected] reports:
 Use after free in Compositing in Google Chrome prior to 137.0.7151.55 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
 (Chromium security severity: High)

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5063

http://www.nessus.org/u?e6022169

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 237613

File Name: freebsd_pkg_4864aec73d8011f09a55b42e991fc52e.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/31/2025

Updated: 5/31/2025

Supported Sensors: 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-2025-5063

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:freebsd:freebsd:chromium, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/30/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5063