An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Chromium is an open source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).
This update upgrades Chromium to version 49.0.2623.108.
Security Fix(es) :
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when visited by the victim. (CVE-2016-1646, CVE-2016-1647, CVE-2016-1648, CVE-2016-1649, CVE-2016-1650)
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2016:0525. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc.
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(90261);
script_version("1.20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/04/25");
script_cve_id(
"CVE-2016-1646",
"CVE-2016-1647",
"CVE-2016-1648",
"CVE-2016-1649",
"CVE-2016-1650",
"CVE-2016-3679"
);
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2016:0525");
script_xref(name:"CISA-KNOWN-EXPLOITED", value:"2022/06/22");
script_name(english:"RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2016:0525)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6 Supplementary.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security
impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base
score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each
vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Chromium is an open source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).
This update upgrades Chromium to version 49.0.2623.108.
Security Fix(es) :
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A
web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash,
execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when visited
by the victim. (CVE-2016-1646, CVE-2016-1647, CVE-2016-1648,
CVE-2016-1649, CVE-2016-1650)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/03/");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0525");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1647");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1646");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1650");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1649");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1648");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected chromium-browser and / or
chromium-browser-debuginfo packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2016-3679");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2016/03/29");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/03/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/04/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:chromium-browser");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:chromium-browser-debuginfo");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Red Hat Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/cpu");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Red Hat" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Red Hat");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Red Hat 6.x", "Red Hat " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "s390" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Red Hat", cpu);
yum_updateinfo = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/yum-updateinfo");
if (!empty_or_null(yum_updateinfo))
{
rhsa = "RHSA-2016:0525";
yum_report = redhat_generate_yum_updateinfo_report(rhsa:rhsa);
if (!empty_or_null(yum_report))
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : yum_report
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
audit_message = "affected by Red Hat security advisory " + rhsa;
audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, audit_message);
}
}
else
{
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"i686", reference:"chromium-browser-49.0.2623.108-1.el6", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"chromium-browser-49.0.2623.108-1.el6", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"i686", reference:"chromium-browser-debuginfo-49.0.2623.108-1.el6", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"RHEL6", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"chromium-browser-debuginfo-49.0.2623.108-1.el6", allowmaj:TRUE)) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get() + redhat_report_package_caveat()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "chromium-browser / chromium-browser-debuginfo");
}
}
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
redhat | enterprise_linux | chromium-browser | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:chromium-browser |
redhat | enterprise_linux | chromium-browser-debuginfo | p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:chromium-browser-debuginfo |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 6 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 |
redhat | enterprise_linux | 6.7 | cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.7 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1646
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1647
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1648
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1649
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1650
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3679
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0525
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1646
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1647
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1648
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1649
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1650
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/03/