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openSUSE 13.2: SUSE-SU-2016:0729-1 Important: Chromium Security Fix

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Calendar Grey March 11, 2016
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A security patch has been issued for Chromium on openSUSE, addressing 14 vulnerabilities, comprising critical security concerns.
An update that fixes 14 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

Chromium was updated to 49.0.2623.75 to fix the following security issues:

(boo#969333)

- CVE-2016-1630: Same-origin bypass in Blink

- CVE-2016-1631: Same-origin bypass in Pepper Plugin

- CVE-2016-1632: Bad cast in Extensions

- CVE-2016-1633: Use-after-free in Blink

- CVE-2016-1634: Use-after-free in Blink

- CVE-2016-1635: Use-after-free in Blink

- CVE-2016-1636: SRI Validation Bypass

- CVE-2015-8126: Out-of-bounds access in libpng

- CVE-2016-1637: Information Leak in Skia

- CVE-2016-1638: WebAPI Bypass

- CVE-2016-1639: Use-after-free in WebRTC

- CVE-2016-1640: Origin confusion in Extensions UI

- CVE-2016-1641: Use-after-free in Favicon

- CVE-2016-1642: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other

initiatives

- Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.9 branch

(currently 4.9.385.26)

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Topics Covered

security advisory information leak software update security fix important openSUSE Chromium

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-330=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

chromedriver-49.0.2623.75-81.2

chromedriver-debuginfo-49.0.2623.75-81.2

chromium-49.0.2623.75-81.2

chromium-debuginfo-49.0.2623.75-81.2

chromium-debugsource-49.0.2623.75-81.2

chromium-desktop-gnome-49.0.2623.75-81.2

chromium-desktop-kde-49.0.2623.75-81.2

chromium-ffmpegsumo-49.0.2623.75-81.2

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-49.0.2623.75-81.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8126.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1630.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1631.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1632.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1633.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1634.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1635.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1636.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1637.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1638.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1639.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1640.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1641.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1642.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=969333

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0729-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 .

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