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Fedora 42: Chromium Critical Use After Free CVE-2025-9478 Advisory

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Calendar Grey September 1, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An important update for Chromium on Fedora 42 resolves a severe use-after-free vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-9478. Users are urged to upgrade immediately!
Update to 139.0.7258.154 CVE-2025-9478: Use after free in ANGLE

Summary

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

Update Information:

Update to 139.0.7258.154 CVE-2025-9478: Use after free in ANGLE

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security advisory fedora critical use-after-free Chromium cve-2025-9478

Change Log

* Thu Aug 28 2025 Than Ngo - 139.0.7258.154-1 - Update to 139.0.7258.154 * CVE-2025-9478: Use after free in ANGLE

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-ad180e88ee 2025-09-01 00:50:28.877915+00:00 Name : chromium Product : Fedora 42 Version : 139.0.7258.154 Release : 1.fc42 URL : http://www.chromium.org/Home Summary : A WebKit (Blink) powered web browser that Google doesn't want you to use Description : Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-ad180e88ee' 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: 139.0.7258.154
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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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical use-after-free Chromium cve-2025-9478

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