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openSUSE 13.2: 2016:1496-1 Important: Chromium Security Threats

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Calendar Grey June 5, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest patch addresses 32 significant vulnerabilities in the Chromium software used by openSUSE, aiming to quickly bolster the overall security of the system.
An update that fixes 32 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

Chromium was updated to 51.0.2704.79 to fix the following vulnerabilities:

- CVE-2016-1696: Cross-origin bypass in Extension bindings

- CVE-2016-1697: Cross-origin bypass in Blink

- CVE-2016-1698: Information leak in Extension bindings

- CVE-2016-1699: Parameter sanitization failure in DevTools

- CVE-2016-1700: Use-after-free in Extensions

- CVE-2016-1701: Use-after-free in Autofill

- CVE-2016-1702: Out-of-bounds read in Skia

- CVE-2016-1703: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other

initiatives

Also includes vulnerabilities fixed in 51.0.2704.63 (boo#981886):

- CVE-2016-1672: Cross-origin bypass in extension bindings

- CVE-2016-1673: Cross-origin bypass in Blink

- CVE-2016-1674: Cross-origin bypass in extensions

- CVE-2016-1675: Cross-origin bypass in Blink

- CVE-2016-1676: Cross-origin bypass in extension bindings

- CVE-2016-1677: Type confusion in V8

- CVE-2016-1678: Heap overflow in V8

- CVE-2016-1679: Heap...

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue critical patch system update 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 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-682=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

chromedriver-51.0.2704.79-105.2

chromedriver-debuginfo-51.0.2704.79-105.2

chromium-51.0.2704.79-105.2

chromium-debuginfo-51.0.2704.79-105.2

chromium-debugsource-51.0.2704.79-105.2

chromium-desktop-gnome-51.0.2704.79-105.2

chromium-desktop-kde-51.0.2704.79-105.2

chromium-ffmpegsumo-51.0.2704.79-105.2

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-51.0.2704.79-105.2

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1672.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1673.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1674.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1675.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1676.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1677.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1678.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1679.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1680.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1681.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1682.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1683.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1684.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1685.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1686.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1687.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1688.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1689.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1690.html

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1496-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 .

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