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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-5b46676afa high: chromium use after free

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Calendar Grey November 26, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora package update alert for Chromium resolves CVE-2023-5997 and CVE-2023-6112, featuring significant bug fixes.
update to 119.0.6045.159, upstream security release - High CVE-2023-5997, use after free in Garbage Collection - High CVE-2023-6112, use after free in Navigation ---- Fix bz#2240...

Summary

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

Update Information:

update to 119.0.6045.159, upstream security release - High CVE-2023-5997, use after free in Garbage Collection - High CVE-2023-6112, use after free in Navigation ---- Fix bz#2240127, audio/video decode issue in chromium

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora software update high chromium use after free

Change Log

* Sun Nov 19 2023 Than Ngo - 119.0.6045.159-2 - fix ffmpeg conflicts * Wed Nov 15 2023 Than Ngo - 119.0.6045.159-1 - update to 119.0.6045.159, upstream security release High CVE-2023-5997, use after free in Garbage Collection High CVE-2023-6112, use after free in Navigation - add Requires/Conflicts for ABI break in fmpeg-free 6.0.1 - drop first_dts patch, reintroduce first_dts patch in ffmpeg-free-6.0.1 - fixed python3 syntaxWarning: invalid escape sequenc - skip clang's patches for epel8 that now gets clang-16 update * Mon Nov 13 2023 Than Ngo - 119.0.6045.123-2 - fixed bz#2240127, Some h.264 mp4s do not play

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2240127 - Some h.264 mp4s do not play on fedora chromium, while they do on other chromium packages (i.e. rpm build from source, flatpak) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240127

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-5b46676afa' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Name: chromium
Product: Fedora 38
Version: 119.0.6045.159
Release: 2.fc38
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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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora software update high chromium use after free

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