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Fedora 25: 2017-ff6940bf63 Moderate: Chromium Memory Access and Overflow

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Calendar Grey April 1, 2017
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This Debian update resolves numerous vulnerability concerns including potential exploitation of code execution and memory corruption flaws in Firefox.
Security fix for CVE-2017-5055, CVE-2017-5054, CVE-2017-5052, CVE-2017-5056, CVE-2017-5053

Summary

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

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2017-5055, CVE-2017-5054, CVE-2017-5052, CVE-2017-5056, CVE-2017-5053

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow Fedora memory access web browser Chromium

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1437353 - CVE-2017-5053 chromium-browser: out of bounds memory access in v8 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1437353 [ 2 ] Bug #1437352 - CVE-2017-5056 chromium-browser: use after free in blink https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1437352 [ 3 ] Bug #1437351 - CVE-2017-5052 chromium-browser: bad cast in blink https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1437351 [ 4 ] Bug #1437350 - CVE-2017-5054 chromium-browser: heap buffer overflow in v8 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1437350 [ 5 ] Bug #1437348 - CVE-2017-5055 chromium-browser: use after free in printing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1437348

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade chromium' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: chromium
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 57.0.2987.133
Release: 1.fc25
URL: https://www.chromium.org/Home/
Summary: A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow Fedora memory access web browser Chromium

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