openSUSE Security Update: Security update for Chromium
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Announcement ID:    openSUSE-SU-2016:0271-1
Rating:             important
References:         #963184 #963185 #963186 #963187 #963188 #963189 
                    #963190 #963191 #963192 
Cross-References:   CVE-2016-1612 CVE-2016-1613 CVE-2016-1614
                    CVE-2016-1615 CVE-2016-1616 CVE-2016-1617
                    CVE-2016-1618 CVE-2016-1619 CVE-2016-1620
                   
Affected Products:
                    openSUSE 13.1
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   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.


Patch Instructions:

   To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - openSUSE 13.1:

      zypper in -t patch 2016-109=1

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


Package List:

   - openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

      chromedriver-48.0.2564.82-122.1
      chromedriver-debuginfo-48.0.2564.82-122.1
      chromium-48.0.2564.82-122.1
      chromium-debuginfo-48.0.2564.82-122.1
      chromium-debugsource-48.0.2564.82-122.1
      chromium-desktop-gnome-48.0.2564.82-122.1
      chromium-desktop-kde-48.0.2564.82-122.1
      chromium-ffmpegsumo-48.0.2564.82-122.1
      chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-48.0.2564.82-122.1


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/963184
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/963185
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/963186
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/963187
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/963188
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/963189
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/963190
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/963191
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/963192

openSUSE: 2016:0271-1: important: Chromium

January 27, 2016
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.

 

Patch

Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 13.1: zypper in -t patch 2016-109=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64): chromedriver-48.0.2564.82-122.1 chromedriver-debuginfo-48.0.2564.82-122.1 chromium-48.0.2564.82-122.1 chromium-debuginfo-48.0.2564.82-122.1 chromium-debugsource-48.0.2564.82-122.1 chromium-desktop-gnome-48.0.2564.82-122.1 chromium-desktop-kde-48.0.2564.82-122.1 chromium-ffmpegsumo-48.0.2564.82-122.1 chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-48.0.2564.82-122.1


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/963184 https://bugzilla.suse.com/963185 https://bugzilla.suse.com/963186 https://bugzilla.suse.com/963187 https://bugzilla.suse.com/963188 https://bugzilla.suse.com/963189 https://bugzilla.suse.com/963190 https://bugzilla.suse.com/963191 https://bugzilla.suse.com/963192


Severity
Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0271-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 .

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