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Fedora 42 : chromium (2026-36fb406407)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 311819

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-2026-36fb406407 advisory.

 The updates include fixes for:

 * Critical CVE-2026-7363: Use after free in Canvas
 * Critical CVE-2026-7361: Use after free in iOS
 * Critical CVE-2026-7344: Use after free in Accessibility
 * Critical CVE-2026-7343: Use after free in Views
 * High CVE-2026-7333: Use after free in GPU
 * High CVE-2026-7360: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Compositing
 * High CVE-2026-7359: Use after free in ANGLE
 * High CVE-2026-7358: Use after free in Animation
 * High CVE-2026-7334: Use after free in Views
 * High CVE-2026-7357: Use after free in GPU
 * High CVE-2026-7356: Use after free in Navigation
 * High CVE-2026-7354: Out of bounds read and write in Angle
 * High CVE-2026-7353: Heap buffer overflow in Skia
 * High CVE-2026-7352: Use after free in Media
 * High CVE-2026-7351: Race in MHTML
 * High CVE-2026-7350: Use after free in WebMIDI
 * High CVE-2026-7349: Use after free in Cast
 * High CVE-2026-7348: Use after free in Codecs
 * High CVE-2026-7335: Use after free in media
 * High CVE-2026-7336: Use after free in WebRTC
 * High CVE-2026-7337: Type Confusion in V8
 * High CVE-2026-7347: Use after free in Chromoting
 * High CVE-2026-7346: Inappropriate implementation in Tint
 * High CVE-2026-7345: Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Feedback
 * High CVE-2026-7338: Use after free in Cast
 * High CVE-2026-7342: Use after free in WebView
 * High CVE-2026-7341: Use after free in WebRTC
 * Medium CVE-2026-7339: Heap buffer overflow in WebRTC
 * Medium CVE-2026-7340: Integer overflow in ANGLE
 * Medium CVE-2026-7355: Use after free 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-2026-36fb406407

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 311819

File Name: fedora_2026-36fb406407.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/3/2026

Updated: 5/3/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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-2026-7363

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-2026-7333

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-7333, CVE-2026-7334, CVE-2026-7335, CVE-2026-7336, CVE-2026-7337, CVE-2026-7338, CVE-2026-7339, CVE-2026-7340, CVE-2026-7341, CVE-2026-7342, CVE-2026-7343, CVE-2026-7344, CVE-2026-7345, CVE-2026-7346, CVE-2026-7347, CVE-2026-7348, CVE-2026-7349, CVE-2026-7350, CVE-2026-7351, CVE-2026-7352, CVE-2026-7353, CVE-2026-7354, CVE-2026-7355, CVE-2026-7356, CVE-2026-7357, CVE-2026-7358, CVE-2026-7359, CVE-2026-7360, CVE-2026-7361, CVE-2026-7363