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openSUSE 13.1: openSUSE-SU-2016:1059-1 Important Chromium Fixes

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Calendar Grey April 16, 2016
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An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

Chromium was updated to 49.0.2623.110 to fix the following security issues:

- CVE-2016-1646: Out-of-bounds read in V8

- CVE-2016-1647: Use-after-free in Navigation

- CVE-2016-1648: Use-after-free in Extensions

- CVE-2016-1649: Buffer overflow in libANGLE

- CVE-2016-1650: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other

initiatives

- CVE-2016-3679: Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the

4.9 branch (currently 4.9.385.33)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important out-of-bounds read openSUSE Chromium Chromium fixes

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 2016-459=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

chromedriver-49.0.2623.110-141.2

chromedriver-debuginfo-49.0.2623.110-141.2

chromium-49.0.2623.110-141.2

chromium-debuginfo-49.0.2623.110-141.2

chromium-debugsource-49.0.2623.110-141.2

chromium-desktop-gnome-49.0.2623.110-141.2

chromium-desktop-kde-49.0.2623.110-141.2

chromium-ffmpegsumo-49.0.2623.110-141.2

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-49.0.2623.110-141.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1646.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1647.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1648.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1649.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1650.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3679.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/972834

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1059-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.1 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important out-of-bounds read openSUSE Chromium Chromium fixes

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