Explore top 10 tips to secure your open-source projects now. Read More

×
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 493
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 493

Fedora 25 Chromium Update - FEDORA-2016-a90040934d Critical Browser Exploit

fedora
Calendar Grey October 9, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch release for Chromium in Fedora 25 tackling several vulnerabilities that impact browser stability and user security.
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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora exploit browser chromium

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 .

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Name: chromium
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 53.0.2785.143
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://www.chromium.org/Home/
Summary: A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora exploit browser chromium

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.