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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:1275-1 Important: Chromium Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2018
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Crucial security patch for Firefox within openSUSE Leap 42.3 tackles severe vulnerabilities, promoting a more secure web experience.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for Chromium to version 66.0.3359.170 fixes the following

issues:

Security issues fixed (boo#1092923):

- CVE-2018-6121: Privilege Escalation in extensions

- CVE-2018-6122: Type confusion in V8

- CVE-2018-6120: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium

- Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives

The following bugs are fixed:

- boo#1092272: Improved support for subpixel rending

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation patch heap overflow browser security openSUSE type confusion

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-456=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

chromedriver-66.0.3359.170-158.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-66.0.3359.170-158.1

chromium-66.0.3359.170-158.1

chromium-debuginfo-66.0.3359.170-158.1

chromium-debugsource-66.0.3359.170-158.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6120.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6121.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6122.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092272

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092923

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1275-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory privilege escalation patch heap overflow browser security openSUSE type confusion

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