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Fedora 24: 2016-d61c4f72da Critical Update for Chromium Security

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Calendar Grey October 16, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important security patch released for Chromium on Fedora 24, tackling several vulnerabilities and improving overall security measures.
Security fix for CVE-2016-5177, CVE-2016-5178 https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_29.html

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

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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

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 24
Version: 53.0.2785.143
Release: 1.fc24
URL: https://www.chromium.org/Home/
Summary: A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser

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