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Gentoo: GLSA 202208-03 Important: Mozilla Firefox Security Vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2015
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several Chromium flaws have been identified that may enable hackers to perform Denial of Service attacks or circumvent security measures. It's crucial to update your system immediately.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium, the worst of which can allow remote attackers to cause Denial of Service or bypass security restrictions

Summary

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

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security advisory denial of service gentoo remote threat normal severity chromium

Resolution

All Chromium users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot -v ">=www-client/chromium-41.0.2272.76"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-1213 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1213 [ 2 ] CVE-2015-1214 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1214 [ 3 ] CVE-2015-1215 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1215 [ 4 ] CVE-2015-1216 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1216 [ 5 ] CVE-2015-1217 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1217 [ 6 ] CVE-2015-1218 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1218 [ 7 ] CVE-2015-1219 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1219 [ 8 ] CVE-2015-1220 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1220 [ 9 ] CVE-2015-1221 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1221 [ 10 ] CVE-2015-1222 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1222 [ 11 ] CVE-2015-1223 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1223 [ 12 ] CVE-2015-1224 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1224 [ 13 ] CVE-2015-1225 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvena...

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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/201503-12
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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: March 22, 2015
Bugs: #542090
ID: 201503-12

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security advisory denial of service gentoo remote threat normal severity chromium

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium, the worst of which can allow remote attackers to cause Denial of Service or bypass security restrictions.

Background

Chromium is an open-source web browser project.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/chromium < 41.0.2272.76 >= 41.0.2272.76

Impact

===== A remote attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service condition, bypass security restrictions, or have other unspecified impact.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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