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openSUSE 42.1: 2016:1061-1 Important Update For Chromium Security

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2016
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Crucial announcement for Fedora addresses several security flaws in Firefox, boosting protection and reliability.
An update that fixes 9 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

Chromium was updated to 50.0.2661.75 to fix the following vulnerabilities:

- CVE-2016-1651: Out-of-bounds read in Pdfium JPEG2000 decoding

- CVE-2016-1652: Universal XSS in extension bindings

- CVE-2016-1653: Out-of-bounds write in V8

- CVE-2016-1654: Uninitialized memory read in media

- CVE-2016-1655: Use-after-free related to extensions

- CVE-2016-1656: Android downloaded file path restriction bypass

- CVE-2016-1657: Address bar spoofing

- CVE-2016-1658: Potential leak of sensitive information to malicious

extensions

- CVE-2016-1659: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other

initiatives

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security advisory update software patch security fix important advisory 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 Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch 4965=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

chromedriver-50.0.2661.75-41.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-50.0.2661.75-41.1

chromium-50.0.2661.75-41.1

chromium-debuginfo-50.0.2661.75-41.1

chromium-debugsource-50.0.2661.75-41.1

chromium-desktop-gnome-50.0.2661.75-41.1

chromium-desktop-kde-50.0.2661.75-41.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-50.0.2661.75-41.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-50.0.2661.75-41.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1651.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1652.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1653.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1654.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1655.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1656.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1657.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1658.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1659.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/975572

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1061-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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