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openSUSE: 2016:2311-1 critical update for chromium available now

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Calendar Grey September 15, 2016
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Addresses various vulnerabilities in Chromium for openSUSE, boosting security through a crucial upgrade. Discover the steps to apply the patch.
An update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

Chromium was updated to 53.0.2785.113 to fix a number of security issues

and bugs.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

- CVE-2016-5170: Use after free in Blink

- CVE-2016-5171: Use after free in Blink

- CVE-2016-5172: Arbitrary Memory Read in v8

- CVE-2016-5173: Extension resource access

- CVE-2016-5174: Popup not correctly suppressed

- CVE-2016-5175: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other

initiatives.

The following upstream fixes are included:

- SPDY crasher fixes

- Disable NV12 DXGI video on AMD

- Forward --password-store switch to os_crypt

- Tell the kernel to discard USB requests when they time out.

- disallow WKBackForwardListItem navigations for pushState pages

- arc: bluetooth: Fix advertised uuid

- fix conflicting PendingIntent for stop button and swipe away

The widevine plugin was re-enabled (boo#998328).

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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-2016-1084=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

chromedriver-53.0.2785.113-74.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-53.0.2785.113-74.1

chromium-53.0.2785.113-74.1

chromium-debuginfo-53.0.2785.113-74.1

chromium-desktop-gnome-53.0.2785.113-74.1

chromium-desktop-kde-53.0.2785.113-74.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-53.0.2785.113-74.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-53.0.2785.113-74.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5170.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5171.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5172.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5173.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5174.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5175.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/998328

https://bugzilla.suse.com/998743

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2311-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1

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