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Fedora 42: Chromium Important CVE-2025-8292 Media Stream Use After Free

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Calendar Grey August 3, 2025
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Important release for Fedora 42 implements a security patch for Chromium that rectifies a use after free vulnerability in Media Stream (CVE-2025-8292).
Update to 138.0.7204.183 * CVE-2025-8292: Use after free in Media Stream

Summary

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

Update Information:

Update to 138.0.7204.183 * CVE-2025-8292: Use after free in Media Stream

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Change Log

* Wed Jul 30 2025 Than Ngo - 138.0.7204.183-1 - Update to 138.0.7204.183 * CVE-2025-8292: Use after free in Media Stream

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2384413 - CVE-2025-8292 chromium: Chrome Media Stream Use-After-Free [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2384413 [ 2 ] Bug #2384414 - CVE-2025-8292 chromium: Chrome Media Stream Use-After-Free [epel-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2384414

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-2d776e48e1' 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 42
Version: 138.0.7204.183
Release: 1.fc42
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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