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Mageia 8: MGASA-2022-0118 Critical: Chromium Browser Type Confusion

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to the stable chromium-browser packages in Mageia address a critical Type Confusion vulnerability.
The chromium-browser-stable package has been updated to 99.0.4844.84 that fixes one security vulnerability and many bugs (together with 99.0.4844.82)

Summary

The chromium-browser-stable package has been updated to 99.0.4844.84 that fixes one security vulnerability and many bugs (together with 99.0.4844.82).
Type Confusion in V8. Reported by anonymous on 2022-03-23 Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2022-1096 exists in the wild. (CVE-2022-1096)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30208

- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_25.html

- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1096

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue software patch browser update chromium-browser Mageia Type Confusion

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/chromium-browser-stable-99.0.4844.84-1.mga8

Severity
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Publication date: 28 Mar 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0118.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-1096

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue software patch browser update chromium-browser Mageia Type Confusion

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