RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2014:1894)

high Nessus Plugin ID 79426

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated chromium-browser packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Chromium is an open source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Chromium. (CVE-2014-7904, CVE-2014-7906, CVE-2014-7907, CVE-2014-7910, CVE-2014-7908, CVE-2014-7909)

A flaw was found in the way Chromium parsed certain URL values. A malicious attacker could use this flaw to perform phishing attacks.
(CVE-2014-7899)

All Chromium users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Chromium version 39.0.2171.65, which corrects these issues.
After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected chromium-browser and / or chromium-browser-debuginfo packages.

See Also

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2014/11/

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1894

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7899

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7904

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7906

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7907

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7910

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7908

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-7909

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 79426

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-1894.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/25/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:chromium-browser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:chromium-browser-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/24/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/19/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-7899, CVE-2014-7904, CVE-2014-7906, CVE-2014-7907, CVE-2014-7908, CVE-2014-7909, CVE-2014-7910

BID: 71159, 71160, 71161, 71166, 71167, 71168, 71170

RHSA: 2014:1894