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openSUSE Leap 42.2: 2016:2793-1 Important: Chromium Memory Access Issues

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2016
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Major patch addresses three vulnerabilities in Firefox for Fedora users, improving overall safety and performance.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update to Chromium 54.0.2840.100 fixes the following vulnerabilities:

- CVE-2016-5199: Heap corruption in FFmpeg (boo#1009892)

- CVE-2016-5200: out of bounds memory access in v8 (boo#1009893)

- CVE-2016-5201: info leak in extensions (boo#1009894)

- CVE-2016-5202: various fixes from internal audits (boo#1009895)

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Topics Covered

security advisory heap corruption memory access Chromium openSUSE Leap

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 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1292=1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1292=1

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1292=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

chromedriver-54.0.2840.100-91.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-54.0.2840.100-91.1

chromium-54.0.2840.100-91.1

chromium-debuginfo-54.0.2840.100-91.1

chromium-debugsource-54.0.2840.100-91.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-54.0.2840.100-91.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-54.0.2840.100-91.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

chromedriver-54.0.2840.100-91.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-54.0.2840.100-91.1

chromium-54.0.2840.100-91.1

chromium-debuginfo-54.0.2840.100-91.1

chromium-debugsource-54.0.2840.100-91.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-54.0.2840.100-91.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-54.0.2840.100-91.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

chromedriver-54.0.2840.100-140.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-54.0.2840.100-140.1

chromium-54.0.2840.100-140.1

chromium-debuginfo-54.0.2840.100-140.1

chromium-debugsource-54.0.2840.100-140.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-54.0.2840.100-140.1

chromium-ffmpegsumo-debuginfo-54.0.2840.100-140.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5199.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5200.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5201.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5202.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1009892

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1009893

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1009894

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1009895

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2793-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2 openSUSE Leap 42.1 openSUSE 13.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory heap corruption memory access Chromium openSUSE Leap

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