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Fedora 37: FEDORA-2023-274239e279 Critical: Chromium Type Confusion

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Calendar Grey October 10, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An important Chromium update for Fedora 37 has been released to address a Type Confusion vulnerability in V8, enhancing browsing security. Update now!
update to 117.0.5938.149.

Summary

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

Update Information:

update to 117.0.5938.149.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora web browser chromium type confusion

Change Log

* Thu Oct 5 2023 Than Ngo - 117.0.5938.149-1 - update to 117.0.5938.149 - fix CVE-2023-5346: Type Confusion in V8 * Fri Sep 29 2023 Than Ngo - 117.0.5938.132-2 - add workaround for the crash on BTI capable system

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2242073 - CVE-2023-5346 chromium: chromium-browser: Type Confusion in V8 [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242073 [ 2 ] Bug #2242074 - CVE-2023-5346 chromium: chromium-browser: Type Confusion in V8 [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242074

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-274239e279' 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 37
Version: 117.0.5938.149
Release: 1.fc37
URL: https://www.chromium.org/Home/
Summary: A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser that Google doesn't want you to use

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security advisory update critical Fedora web browser chromium type confusion

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