openSUSE 16 Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-SU-2026:20588-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 309142

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-2026:20588-1 advisory.

Changes in chromium:

- Chromium 147.0.7727.101 (boo#1262174)
* CVE-2026-6296: Heap buffer overflow in ANGLE
* CVE-2026-6297: Use after free in Proxy
* CVE-2026-6298: Heap buffer overflow in Skia
* CVE-2026-6299: Use after free in Prerender
* CVE-2026-6358: Use after free in XR
* CVE-2026-6359: Use after free in Video
* CVE-2026-6300: Use after free in CSS
* CVE-2026-6301: Type Confusion in Turbofan
* CVE-2026-6302: Use after free in Video
* CVE-2026-6303: Use after free in Codecs
* CVE-2026-6304: Use after free in Graphite
* CVE-2026-6305: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium
* CVE-2026-6306: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium
* CVE-2026-6307: Type Confusion in Turbofan
* CVE-2026-6308: Out of bounds read in Media
* CVE-2026-6309: Use after free in Viz
* CVE-2026-6360: Use after free in FileSystem
* CVE-2026-6310: Use after free in Dawn
* CVE-2026-6311: Uninitialized Use in Accessibility
* CVE-2026-6312: Insufficient policy enforcement in Passwords
* CVE-2026-6313: Insufficient policy enforcement in CORS
* CVE-2026-6314: Out of bounds write in GPU
* CVE-2026-6315: Use after free in Permissions
* CVE-2026-6316: Use after free in Forms
* CVE-2026-6361: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium
* CVE-2026-6362: Use after free in Codecs
* CVE-2026-6317: Use after free in Cast
* CVE-2026-6363: Type Confusion in V8
* CVE-2026-6318: Use after free in Codecs
* CVE-2026-6319: Use after free in Payments
* CVE-2026-6364: Out of bounds read in Skia

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: 309142

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20588-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/22/2026

Updated: 4/22/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

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-2026-6363

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-6296

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-6296, CVE-2026-6297, CVE-2026-6298, CVE-2026-6299, CVE-2026-6300, CVE-2026-6301, CVE-2026-6302, CVE-2026-6303, CVE-2026-6304, CVE-2026-6305, CVE-2026-6306, CVE-2026-6307, CVE-2026-6308, CVE-2026-6309, CVE-2026-6310, CVE-2026-6311, CVE-2026-6312, CVE-2026-6313, CVE-2026-6314, CVE-2026-6315, CVE-2026-6316, CVE-2026-6317, CVE-2026-6318, CVE-2026-6319, CVE-2026-6358, CVE-2026-6359, CVE-2026-6360, CVE-2026-6361, CVE-2026-6362, CVE-2026-6363, CVE-2026-6364

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