RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2015:0627)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 81662

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for chromium-browser.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:0627 advisory.

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-2015-1213, CVE-2015-1214, CVE-2015-1215, CVE-2015-1216, CVE-2015-1217, CVE-2015-1218, CVE-2015-1219, CVE-2015-1220, CVE-2015-1221, CVE-2015-1222, CVE-2015-1223, CVE-2015-1224, CVE-2015-1225, CVE-2015-1226, CVE-2015-1227, CVE-2015-1228, CVE-2015-1229, CVE-2015-1230, CVE-2015-1231)

All Chromium users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Chromium version 41.0.2272.76, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL chromium-browser package based on the guidance in RHSA-2015:0627.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?8a83e645

http://www.nessus.org/u?dbe2503e

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0627

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198519

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198520

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198521

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198522

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198523

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198525

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198526

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198527

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198528

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198529

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198530

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198531

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198532

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198533

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198534

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198535

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198536

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198537

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1198542

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 81662

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-0627.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/6/2015

Updated: 8/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1232

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1215

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1213, CVE-2015-1214, CVE-2015-1215, CVE-2015-1216, CVE-2015-1217, CVE-2015-1218, CVE-2015-1219, CVE-2015-1220, CVE-2015-1221, CVE-2015-1222, CVE-2015-1223, CVE-2015-1224, CVE-2015-1225, CVE-2015-1226, CVE-2015-1227, CVE-2015-1228, CVE-2015-1229, CVE-2015-1230, CVE-2015-1231, CVE-2015-1232

BID: 72901, 72912, 72916, 73349

CWE: 125, 190, 20, 416, 456, 787, 843

RHSA: 2015:0627