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Fedora 42 : cef (2025-5fac63ba6a)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 270105

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-5fac63ba6a advisory.

 Update to 140.1.15^chromium140.0.7339.207 (rhbz#2396308)

 * CVE-2025-10890: Side-channel information leakage in V8
 * CVE-2025-10891: Integer overflow in V8
 * CVE-2025-10892: Integer overflow in V8
 * CVE-2025-10585: Type Confusion in V8
 * CVE-2025-10500: Use after free in Dawn
 * CVE-2025-10501: Use after free in WebRTC
 * CVE-2025-10502: Heap buffer overflow in ANGLE
 * CVE-2025-10200: Use after free in Serviceworker
 * CVE-2025-10201: Inappropriate implementation in Mojo
 * CVE-2025-9864: Use after free in V8
 * CVE-2025-9865: Inappropriate implementation in Toolbar
 * CVE-2025-9866: Inappropriate implementation in Extensions
 * CVE-2025-9867: Inappropriate implementation in Downloads


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 cef package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-5fac63ba6a

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 270105

File Name: fedora_2025-5fac63ba6a.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/12/2025

Updated: 10/12/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-10892

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-10585

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cef, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:42

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/2/2025

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 10/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-10200, CVE-2025-10201, CVE-2025-10500, CVE-2025-10501, CVE-2025-10502, CVE-2025-10585, CVE-2025-10890, CVE-2025-10891, CVE-2025-10892, CVE-2025-9864, CVE-2025-9865, CVE-2025-9866, CVE-2025-9867