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openSUSE: 2016:0818-1 Important: Chromium Critical Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey March 18, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant security patch for openSUSE has been released for Chromium, tackling three major vulnerabilities with detailed installation guidance provided.
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:

- SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12:

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

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

Package List

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

chromedriver-49.0.2623.87-58.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-49.0.2623.87-58.1

chromium-49.0.2623.87-58.1

chromium-debuginfo-49.0.2623.87-58.1

chromium-debugsource-49.0.2623.87-58.1

chromium-desktop-gnome-49.0.2623.87-58.1

chromium-desktop-kde-49.0.2623.87-58.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-49.0.2623.87-58.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-49.0.2623.87-58.1

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/970509

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970511

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970514

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0818-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: SUSE Package Hub for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12

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