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Gentoo GLSA 201201-03 Normal: Chromium And V8 Code Execution

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Calendar Grey January 8, 2012
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The Gentoo security advisory GLSA 202108-02 highlights various vulnerabilities in Firefox and SpiderMonkey that may enable unauthorized code execution.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium and V8, some of which may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chromium and V8. Please review the CVE identifiers and release notes referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo code execution arbitrary code Chromium V8

Resolution

All Chromium users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-client/chromium-16.0.912.75"
All V8 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/v8-3.6.6.11"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2011-3903 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3903 [ 2 ] CVE-2011-3904 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3904 [ 3 ] CVE-2011-3906 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3906 [ 4 ] CVE-2011-3907 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3907 [ 5 ] CVE-2011-3908 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3908 [ 6 ] CVE-2011-3909 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3909 [ 7 ] CVE-2011-3910 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3910 [ 8 ] CVE-2011-3912 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3912 [ 9 ] CVE-2011-3913 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3913 [ 10 ] CVE-2011-3914 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3914 [ 11 ] CVE-2011-3917 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3917 [ 12 ] ......

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201201-03
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Chromium, V8: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 08, 2012
Bugs: #394587, #397907
ID: 201201-03

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo code execution arbitrary code Chromium V8

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium and V8, some of which may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Chromium is an open source web browser project. V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/chromium < 16.0.912.75 >= 16.0.912.75 2 dev-lang/v8 < 3.6.6.11 >= 3.6.6.11 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 affected packages -------------------------------------------------------------------

Impact

===== A context-dependent attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web site or JavaScript program using Chromium or V8, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or a Denial of Service condition. The attacker could also perform URL bar spoofing.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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