Arch Linux: ASA-201605-7 High Severity: Chromium Denial Of Service

The package chromium before version 50.0.2661.94-1 is vulnerable to multiple issues leading to denial of service, information leakage or arbitrary code execution.

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201605-7
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Severity: High
Date    : 2016-05-05
CVE-ID  : CVE-2016-1660 CVE-2016-1661 CVE-2016-1662 CVE-2016-1663
          CVE-2016-1664 CVE-2016-1665 CVE-2016-1666
Package : chromium
Type    : multiple issues
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE

Summary
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The package chromium before version 50.0.2661.94-1 is vulnerable to
multiple issues leading to denial of service, information leakage or
arbitrary code execution.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 50.0.2661.94-1.

# pacman -Syu "chromium>=50.0.2661.94-1"

The problems have been fixed upstream in version 50.0.2661.94.

Workaround
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None.

Description
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- CVE-2016-1660:

Out-of-bounds write in Blink. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

- CVE-2016-1661:

Memory corruption in cross-process frames. Credit to Wadih Matar.

- CVE-2016-1662:

Use-after-free in extensions. Credit to Rob Wu.

- CVE-2016-1663:

Use-after-free in Blink's V8 bindings. Credit to anonymous.

- CVE-2016-1664:

Address bar spoofing. Credit to Wadih Matar.

- CVE-2016-1665:

Information leak in V8. Credit to HyungSeok Han.

- CVE-2016-1666:

Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

Impact
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A remote attacker can cause a denial of service, access sensitive
information or possibly execute arbitrary code on the affected host.

References
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https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_28.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1660
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1661
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1662
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1663
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1664
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1665
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1666