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openSUSE: 2016:0817-1 Important: Chromium Type Confusion Issues

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Calendar Grey March 18, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Tackle major vulnerabilities found in Chromium through this openSUSE upgrade to boost overall system protection.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update contains Chromium 49.0.2623.87 to fix the following issues:

- CVE-2016-1643: Type confusion in Blink (boo#970514)

- CVE-2016-1644: Use-after-free in Blink (boo#970509)

- CVE-2016-1645: Out-of-bounds write in PDFium (boo#970511)

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-362=1

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-362=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

chromedriver-49.0.2623.87-31.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-49.0.2623.87-31.1

chromium-49.0.2623.87-31.1

chromium-debuginfo-49.0.2623.87-31.1

chromium-debugsource-49.0.2623.87-31.1

chromium-desktop-gnome-49.0.2623.87-31.1

chromium-desktop-kde-49.0.2623.87-31.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-49.0.2623.87-31.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-49.0.2623.87-31.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

chromedriver-49.0.2623.87-84.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-49.0.2623.87-84.1

chromium-49.0.2623.87-84.1

chromium-debuginfo-49.0.2623.87-84.1

chromium-debugsource-49.0.2623.87-84.1

chromium-desktop-gnome-49.0.2623.87-84.1

chromium-desktop-kde-49.0.2623.87-84.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-49.0.2623.87-84.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-49.0.2623.87-84.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1643.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1644.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1645.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970509

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970511

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=970514

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0817-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 .

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