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Gentoo: GLSA-202301-16 Moderate Security Issues in Firefox and SpiderMonkey

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Calendar Grey March 30, 2012
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Numerous security flaws in Chromium and V8 may lead to potential remote code execution or denial of service incidents. It's highly recommended to apply updates.
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 Denial of Service Chromium V8

Resolution

All Chromium users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-client/chromium-18.0.1025.142"
All V8 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/v8-3.8.9.16"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2011-3057 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3057 [ 2 ] CVE-2011-3058 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3058 [ 3 ] CVE-2011-3059 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3059 [ 4 ] CVE-2011-3060 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3060 [ 5 ] CVE-2011-3061 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3061 [ 6 ] CVE-2011-3062 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3062 [ 7 ] CVE-2011-3063 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3063 [ 8 ] CVE-2011-3064 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3064 [ 9 ] CVE-2011-3065 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3065 [ 10 ] Release Notes 18.0.1025.142 https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2012/03/stable-channel-release-and-beta-channel.html

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201203-24
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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: March 30, 2012
Bugs: #410045
ID: 201203-24

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo code execution Denial of Service 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. SPDY is an experimental networking protocol.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/chromium < 18.0.1025.142 >= 18.0.1025.142 2 dev-lang/v8 < 3.8.9.16 >= 3.8.9.16 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 entice a user to open a specially crafted web site using Chromium, possibly resulting in cross-site scripting (XSS), or an unspecified SPDY certificate checking error.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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