SUSE SLES12 Security Update : Chromium (SUSE-SU-2016:0665-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 89775

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Synopsis

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

Description

Chromium was updated to 49.0.2623.75 to fix the following security issues: (boo#969333)

- CVE-2016-1630: Same-origin bypass in Blink

- CVE-2016-1631: Same-origin bypass in Pepper Plugin

- CVE-2016-1632: Bad cast in Extensions

- CVE-2016-1633: Use-after-free in Blink

- CVE-2016-1634: Use-after-free in Blink

- CVE-2016-1635: Use-after-free in Blink

- CVE-2016-1636: SRI Validation Bypass

- CVE-2015-8126: Out-of-bounds access in libpng

- CVE-2016-1637: Information Leak in Skia

- CVE-2016-1638: WebAPI Bypass

- CVE-2016-1639: Use-after-free in WebRTC

- CVE-2016-1640: Origin confusion in Extensions UI

- CVE-2016-1641: Use-after-free in Favicon

- CVE-2016-1642: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives

- Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.9 branch (currently 4.9.385.26)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 :

zypper in -t patch 4789=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 89775

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0665-1.nasl

Version: 2.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/9/2016

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

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 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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromedriver, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromedriver-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium-desktop-gnome, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium-desktop-kde, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium-ffmpegsumo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 3/5/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2016-1630, CVE-2016-1631, CVE-2016-1632, CVE-2016-1633, CVE-2016-1634, CVE-2016-1635, CVE-2016-1636, CVE-2016-1637, CVE-2016-1638, CVE-2016-1639, CVE-2016-1640, CVE-2016-1641, CVE-2016-1642

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