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Gentoo: GLSA-201205-04 Normal: Chromium and V8 Code Execution

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Calendar Grey May 27, 2012
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Revision to Gentoo GLSA-201204-05 concerning Chromium and V8 to rectify operational challenges stemming from security flaws.
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 software update code execution normal severity chromium v8

Resolution

All Chromium users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-client/chromium-19.0.1084.52"
All V8 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/v8-3.9.24.28"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2011-3103 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3103 [ 2 ] CVE-2011-3104 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3104 [ 3 ] CVE-2011-3105 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3105 [ 4 ] CVE-2011-3106 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3106 [ 5 ] CVE-2011-3107 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3107 [ 6 ] CVE-2011-3108 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3108 [ 7 ] CVE-2011-3109 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3109 [ 8 ] CVE-2011-3111 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3111 [ 9 ] CVE-2011-3115 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3115 [ 10 ] Release Notes 19.0.1084.52 https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2012/05/stable-channel-update_23.html

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201205-04
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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: May 27, 2012
Bugs: #417321
ID: 201205-04

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo software update code execution normal severity 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 < 19.0.1084.52 >= 19.0.1084.52 2 dev-lang/v8 < 3.9.24.28 >= 3.9.24.28 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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