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Gentoo: GLSA 202304-05 Critical: Firefox Vulnerability Exploitation Risk

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Calendar Grey April 10, 2012
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo Security Advisories (GLSA) 201204-03 addresses severe vulnerabilities in Chromium that may lead to remote code execution or DoS attacks. Immediate updates are recommended.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Chromium, some of which may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

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

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Resolution

All Chromium users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-client/chromium-18.0.1025.151"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2011-3066 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3066 [ 2 ] CVE-2011-3067 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3067 [ 3 ] CVE-2011-3068 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3068 [ 4 ] CVE-2011-3069 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3069 [ 5 ] CVE-2011-3070 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3070 [ 6 ] CVE-2011-3071 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3071 [ 7 ] CVE-2011-3072 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3072 [ 8 ] CVE-2011-3073 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3073 [ 9 ] CVE-2011-3074 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3074 [ 10 ] CVE-2011-3075 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3075 [ 11 ] CVE-2011-3076 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3076 [ 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/201204-03
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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.

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Severity: Normal
Title: Chromium: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: April 10, 2012
Bugs: #410963
ID: 201204-03

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Synopsis

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

Background

Chromium is an open source web browser project.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/chromium < 18.0.1025.151 >= 18.0.1025.151

Impact

===== A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted web site using Chromium, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, a Denial of Service condition, or bypass of the same origin policy.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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