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Fedora 25 : chromium (2017-ff6940bf63)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99149

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2017-5055, CVE-2017-5054, CVE-2017-5052, CVE-2017-5056, CVE-2017-5053

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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Solution

Update the affected chromium package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-ff6940bf63

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99149

File Name: fedora_2017-ff6940bf63.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/3/2017

Updated: 12/26/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5055

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.6

Temporal Score: 9.2

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5053

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:chromium

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5052, CVE-2017-5053, CVE-2017-5054, CVE-2017-5055, CVE-2017-5056