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Mageia: MGASA-2021-0565 Urgent: Chromium Stability Patch and Security Flaws

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
The latest Chromium-browser-stable has been released to address urgent security vulnerabilities that are currently being exploited. Safeguard your system right away.
Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Summary

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities.
The chromium-browser-stable package has been updated to 96.0.4664.110 version that fixes multiples security vulnerabilities. One of these CVEs is known to be actively exploited.
Insufficient data validation in Mojo. (CVE-2021-4098)
Use after free in Swiftshader. (CVE-2021-4099)
Object lifecycle issue in ANGLE. (CVE-2021-4100)
Heap buffer overflow in Swiftshader. (CVE-2021-4101)
Use after free in V8. (CVE-2021-4102)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29765

- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4098

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4099

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4100

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4101

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-4102

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical stability fix Mageia chromium-browser-stable exploited issue

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/chromium-browser-stable-96.0.4664.110-1.mga8

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Publication date: 19 Dec 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0565.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-4098, CVE-2021-4099, CVE-2021-4100, CVE-2021-4101, CVE-2021-4102

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical stability fix Mageia chromium-browser-stable exploited issue

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