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Fedora 44 : chromium (2026-4d42fffb2b)

high Nessus Plugin ID 303773

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-4d42fffb2b advisory.

 Update to 146.0.7680.164

 * High CVE-2026-4673: Heap buffer overflow in WebAudio
 * High CVE-2026-4674: Out of bounds read in CSS
 * High CVE-2026-4675: Heap buffer overflow in WebGL
 * High CVE-2026-4676: Use after free in Dawn
 * High CVE-2026-4677: Out of bounds read in WebAudio
 * High CVE-2026-4678: Use after free in WebGPU
 * High CVE-2026-4679: Integer overflow in Fonts
 * High CVE-2026-4680: Use after free in FedCM


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-2026-4d42fffb2b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 303773

File Name: fedora_2026-4d42fffb2b.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2026

Updated: 3/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2026-4680

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:44

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/25/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-4673, CVE-2026-4674, CVE-2026-4675, CVE-2026-4676, CVE-2026-4677, CVE-2026-4678, CVE-2026-4679, CVE-2026-4680