SB2017120813 - OpenSUSE Linux update for chromium
Published: December 8, 2017 Updated: July 1, 2021
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 18 vulnerabilities.
1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15418)
CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor
CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The weakness exists due to use of uninitialized value in Skia. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and read arbitrary data from system memory.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
2) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15427)
CWE-ID: CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
CVSSv4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.
The weakness exists due to insufficient blocking of JavaScript in Omnibox. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and bypass security restrictions.
3) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15426)
CWE-ID: CWE-843 - Type confusion
CVSSv4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to URL spoofing in OmniBox. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and conduct domain spoofing attacks.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in address spoofing.
4) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15425)
CWE-ID: CWE-843 - Type confusion
CVSSv4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to URL spoofing in OmniBox. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and conduct domain spoofing attacks.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in address spoofing.
5) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15424)
CWE-ID: CWE-843 - Type confusion
CVSSv4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to URL spoofing in OmniBox. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and conduct domain spoofing attacks.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in address spoofing.
6) Security restrictions bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15423)
CWE-ID: CWE-264 - Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
CVSSv4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.
The weakness exists due to an issue with SPAKE implementation in BoringSSL. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and bypass security restrictions.
7) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15422)
CWE-ID: CWE-190 - Integer overflow
CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The weakness exists due to integer overflow in ICU. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and cause the application to crash.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.
8) Spoofing attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15420)
CWE-ID: CWE-843 - Type confusion
CVSSv4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to URL spoofing in OmniBox. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and conduct domain spoofing attacks.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in address spoofing.
9) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15419)
CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime
CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The weakness exists due to cross origin leak of redirect URL in Blink. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and read arbitrary data from system memory.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
10) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15408)
CWE-ID: CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CVSSv4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists due to heap-based buffer overflow in PDFium. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
11) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15417)
CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor
CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The weakness exists due to cross origin information disclosure in Skia. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and read arbitrary data from system memory.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
12) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15416)
CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read
CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds read in Blink. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and read arbitrary data from system memory.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
13) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15415)
CWE-ID: CWE-200 - Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor
CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The weakness exists due to pointer information disclosure in IPC call. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and read arbitrary data from system memory.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
14) Type confusion (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15413)
CWE-ID: CWE-843 - Type confusion
CVSSv4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists due to type confusion in WebAssembly. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
15) Use-after-free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15412)
CWE-ID: CWE-416 - Use After Free
CVSSv4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists due to use-after-free error in libXML. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
16) Use-after-free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15411)
CWE-ID: CWE-416 - Use After Free
CVSSv4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists due to use-after-free error in PDFium. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
17) Use-after-free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15410)
CWE-ID: CWE-416 - Use After Free
CVSSv4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists due to use-after-free error in PDFium. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
18) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15409)
CWE-ID: CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds write
CVSSv4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The weakness exists due to out-of-bounds write in Skia. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.