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openSUSE: 2016:0249-1 Important: Chromium Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey January 26, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Critical security patch for Chromium on openSUSE addresses several vulnerabilities to improve overall safety and reliability.
An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

Chromium was updated to 48.0.2564.82 to fix security issues and bugs.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

- CVE-2016-1612: Bad cast in V8 (boo#963184)

- CVE-2016-1613: Use-after-free in PDFium (boo#963185)

- CVE-2016-1614: Information leak in Blink (boo#963186)

- CVE-2016-1615: Origin confusion in Omnibox (boo#963187)

- CVE-2016-1616: URL Spoofing (boo#963188)

- CVE-2016-1617: History sniffing with HSTS and CSP (boo#963189)

- CVE-2016-1618: Weak random number generator in Blink (boo#963190)

- CVE-2016-1619: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium (boo#963191)

- CVE-2016-1620 chromium-browser: various fixes (boo#963192)

This update also enables SSE2 support on x86_64, VA-API hardware

acceleration and fixes a crash when trying to enable the Chromecast

extension.

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-99=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (x86_64):

chromedriver-48.0.2564.82-41.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-48.0.2564.82-41.1

chromium-48.0.2564.82-41.1

chromium-debuginfo-48.0.2564.82-41.1

chromium-debugsource-48.0.2564.82-41.1

chromium-desktop-gnome-48.0.2564.82-41.1

chromium-desktop-kde-48.0.2564.82-41.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-48.0.2564.82-41.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-48.0.2564.82-41.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1612.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1613.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1614.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1615.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1616.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1617.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1618.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1619.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1620.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963184

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963185

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963186

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963187

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963188

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963189

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963190

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963191

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963192

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0249-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 .

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