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Fedora 23 FEDORA-2016-2e50862950 Critical: Chromium Security Fix

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Obtain the most recent security update for Chromium in Fedora 23 that resolves various vulnerabilities, including CVE-2016-5177.
Security fix for CVE-2016-5177, CVE-2016-5178 https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_29.html ---- Update to 53.0.2785.116

Summary

Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-5177, CVE-2016-5178 https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_29.html ---- Update to 53.0.2785.116. om/chromium/src/+log/53.0.2785.113..53.0.2785.116?pretty=fuller&n=10000 ---- Update to 53.0.2785.113 Security fix for CVE-2016-5170, CVE-2016-5171, CVE-2016-5172, CVE-2016-5173, CVE-2016-5174, CVE-2016-5175 ---- Stable update to 53.0.2785.101. Security fix for CVE-2016-5147, CVE-2016-5148, CVE-2016-5149, CVE-2016-5150, CVE-2016-5151, CVE-2016-5152, CVE-2016-5153, CVE-2016-5154, CVE-2016-5155, CVE-2016-5156, CVE-2016-5157, CVE-2016-5158, CVE-2016-5159, CVE-2016-5161, CVE-2016-5162, CVE-2016-5163, CVE-2016-5164, CVE-2016-5165, CVE-2016-5166, CVE-2016-5160, CVE-2016-5167 Also applies fix for chrome-remote- desktop where HOME env variable was not properly set via systemd service.

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1380632 - CVE-2016-5178 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380632 [ 2 ] Bug #1380631 - CVE-2016-5177 chromium-browser: use after free in v8 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380631 [ 3 ] Bug #1375868 - CVE-2016-5175 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375868 [ 4 ] Bug #1375867 - CVE-2016-5174 chromium-browser: popup not correctly suppressed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375867 [ 5 ] Bug #1375866 - CVE-2016-5173 chromium-browser: extension resource access https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375866 [ 6 ] Bug #1375865 - CVE-2016-5172 chromium-browser: arbitrary memory read in v8 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375865 [ 7 ] Bug #1375864 - CVE-2016-5171 chromium-browser: use after free in blink https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update chromium' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: chromium
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 53.0.2785.143
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://www.chromium.org/Home/
Summary: A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser

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