Arch Linux: 201603-5 High Severity: Chromium Exploit Risks

The package chromium before version 49.0.2623.87-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues including type confusion, use-after-free and out-of-bounds write.

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201603-5
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Severity: High
Date    : 2016-03-09
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-1643 CVE-2016-1644 CVE-2016-1645
Package : chromium
Type    : multiple issues
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
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The package chromium before version 49.0.2623.87-1 is vulnerable to multiple
issues including type confusion, use-after-free and out-of-bounds write.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 49.0.2623.87-1.

# pacman -Syu "chromium>=49.0.2623.87-1"

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 49.0.2623.87.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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- CVE-2016-1643 (type confusion)
Type confusion in Blink.

- CVE-2016-1644 (use-after-free)
Use-after-free in Blink.

- CVE-2016-1645 (out-of-bounds write)
Out-of-bounds write in PDFium.


Impact
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A remote attacker is able to crash the application resulting in denial of
service or execute arbitrary code.

References
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1643
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1644
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1645
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update_8.html