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openSUSE: 2020:1260-1 Moderate: Chromium Heap Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 26, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest openSUSE security patch for Chromium addresses a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability essential for system integrity and data security
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for chromium fixes the following issues:

- Update to 84.0.4147.135 (boo#1175505):

* CVE-2020-6556: Heap buffer overflow in SwiftShader

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update heap buffer overflow openSUSE chromium patch instructions

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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-1260=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

chromedriver-84.0.4147.135-lp151.2.120.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-84.0.4147.135-lp151.2.120.1

chromium-84.0.4147.135-lp151.2.120.1

chromium-debuginfo-84.0.4147.135-lp151.2.120.1

chromium-debugsource-84.0.4147.135-lp151.2.120.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-6556.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1175505

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1260-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1

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