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openSUSE 42.1 and 13.2 Security Update: Important Chromium Fixes

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Calendar Grey May 16, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Crucial enhancements released to address four major web browser security flaws in openSUSE Chromium.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

Chromium was updated to 50.0.2661.102 to fix four vulnerabilities

(boo#979859):

- CVE-2016-1667: Same origin bypass in DOM

- CVE-2016-1668: Same origin bypass in Blink V8 bindings

- CVE-2016-1669: Buffer overflow in V8

- CVE-2016-1670: Race condition in loader

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-2016-584=1

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-584=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

chromedriver-50.0.2661.102-48.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-48.1

chromium-50.0.2661.102-48.1

chromium-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-48.1

chromium-debugsource-50.0.2661.102-48.1

chromium-desktop-gnome-50.0.2661.102-48.1

chromium-desktop-kde-50.0.2661.102-48.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-50.0.2661.102-48.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-48.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

chromedriver-50.0.2661.102-100.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-100.1

chromium-50.0.2661.102-100.1

chromium-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-100.1

chromium-debugsource-50.0.2661.102-100.1

chromium-desktop-gnome-50.0.2661.102-100.1

chromium-desktop-kde-50.0.2661.102-100.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-50.0.2661.102-100.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-100.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1667.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1668.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1669.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1670.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/979859

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1304-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2

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