openSUSE 16 Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-SU-2026:20183-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 298349

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20183-1 advisory.

Changes in chromium:

- Chromium 144.0.7559.132 (boo#1257650)
* CVE-2026-1861: Heap buffer overflow in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 144.0.7559.132 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
* CVE-2026-1862: Type Confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 144.0.7559.132 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

- Chromium 144.0.7559.109 (boo#1257404)
* CVE-2026-1504: Inappropriate implementation in Background Fetch API

- Chromium 144.0.7559.96 (boo#1257011)
* CVE-2026-1220: Race in V8
- update INSTALL.sh to handle the addded tags in the desktop file (boo#1256938)

- Chromium 144.0.7559.59 (boo#1256614)
* CVE-2026-0899: Out of bounds memory access in V8
* CVE-2026-0900: Inappropriate implementation in V8
* CVE-2026-0901: Inappropriate implementation in Blink
* CVE-2026-0902: Inappropriate implementation in V8
* CVE-2026-0903: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Downloads
* CVE-2026-0904: Incorrect security UI in Digital Credentials
* CVE-2026-0905: Insufficient policy enforcement in Network
* CVE-2026-0906: Incorrect security UI
* CVE-2026-0907: Incorrect security UI in Split View
* CVE-2026-0908: Use after free in ANGLE
- use noopenh264 where available

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 chromedriver and / or chromium packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 298349

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20183-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/9/2026

Updated: 9/3/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.15

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-2026-1862

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-0907

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromedriver, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:chromium

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-0899, CVE-2026-0900, CVE-2026-0901, CVE-2026-0902, CVE-2026-0903, CVE-2026-0904, CVE-2026-0905, CVE-2026-0906, CVE-2026-0907, CVE-2026-0908, CVE-2026-1220, CVE-2026-1504, CVE-2026-1861, CVE-2026-1862

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