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Fedora 40: Update FEDORA-2024-0a4a65f805 for Chromium Critical Issues

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2024
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Important security notice issued for Fedora 40 involving updates for chromium that tackle urgent vulnerabilities alongside suggested remediation steps.
update to 128.0.6613.137 * High CVE-2024-8636: Heap buffer overflow in Skia * High CVE-2024-8637: Use after free in Media Router * High CVE-2024-8638: Type Confusion in V8 * Hi...

Summary

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

Update Information:

update to 128.0.6613.137 * High CVE-2024-8636: Heap buffer overflow in Skia * High CVE-2024-8637: Use after free in Media Router * High CVE-2024-8638: Type Confusion in V8 * High CVE-2024-8639: Use after free in Autofill

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

* Wed Sep 11 2024 Than Ngo - 128.0.6613.137-1 - update to 128.0.6613.137 * High CVE-2024-8636: Heap buffer overflow in Skia * High CVE-2024-8637: Use after free in Media Router * High CVE-2024-8638: Type Confusion in V8 * High CVE-2024-8639: Use after free in Autofill

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2311182 - CVE-2024-45590 chromium: Denial of Service Vulnerability in body-parser [epel-8] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2311182 [ 2 ] Bug #2311196 - CVE-2024-45590 chromium: Denial of Service Vulnerability in body-parser [fedora-39] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2311196 [ 3 ] Bug #2311225 - CVE-2024-45590 chromium: Denial of Service Vulnerability in body-parser [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2311225 [ 4 ] Bug #2311373 - CVE-2024-43796 chromium: Improper Input Handling in Express Redirects [epel-8] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2311373 [ 5 ] Bug #2311378 - CVE-2024-43796 chromium: Improper Input Handling in Express Redirects [fedora-39] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2311378 [ 6 ] Bug #2311393 - CVE-2024-43796 chromium: Improper Input Handling in Express Redirects [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2311...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2024-0a4a65f805' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: chromium
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 128.0.6613.137
Release: 1.fc40
URL: http://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

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