Arch Linux: ASA-202309-15 High: Firefox Various Vulnerabilities

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201603-24
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Severity: Critical
Date    : 2016-03-26
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-1646 CVE-2016-1647 CVE-2016-1648 CVE-2016-1649
CVE-2016-1650
Package : chromium
Type    : multiple issues
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
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The package chromium before version 49.0.2623.108-1 is vulnerable to
multiple issues.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 49.0.2623.108-1.

# pacman -Syu "chromium>=49.0.2623.108-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 49.0.2623.108.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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- CVE-2016-1646:

Out-of-bounds read in V8. Credit to Wen Xu from Tencent KeenLab.

- CVE-2016-1647:

Use-after-free in Navigation. Credit to anonymous.

- CVE-2016-1648:

Use-after-free in Extensions. Credit to anonymous.

- CVE-2016-1649:

Buffer overflow in libANGLE. Credit to lokihardt working with HP's Zero
Day Initiative / Pwn2Own.

- CVE-2016-1650:

Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.


Impact
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A remote attacker can cause a denial of service or have another
unspecified impact on the affected host.

References
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https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update_24.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1646
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1647
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1648
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1649
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1650