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Fedora 43 : chromium (2026-18d617b2e5)

high Nessus Plugin ID 300066

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-18d617b2e5 advisory.

 Update to 145.0.7632.109

 * CVE-2026-2648: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium
 * CVE-2026-2649: Integer overflow in V8
 * CVE-2026-2650: Heap buffer overflow in Media


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-2026-18d617b2e5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 300066

File Name: fedora_2026-18d617b2e5.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/27/2026

Updated: 2/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, 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-2026-2650

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:43

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-2648, CVE-2026-2649, CVE-2026-2650