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openSUSE 2023:0277-1 Critical: Chromium Heap Overflow and Use After Free

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2023
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Urgent patch released for chromium on openSUSE addressing serious heap buffer overflow and use-after-free vulnerabilities. Swift implementation required.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for chromium fixes the following issues:

- Chromium 117.0.5938.132 (boo#1215776):

* CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx

(boo#1215778)

* CVE-2023-5186: Use after free in Passwords

* CVE-2023-5187: Use after free in Extensions

- Chromium 117.0.5938.92:

* stability improvements

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 Backports SLE-15-SP5:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2023-277=1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2023-277=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 (aarch64 x86_64):

chromedriver-117.0.5938.132-bp155.2.40.1

chromedriver-debuginfo-117.0.5938.132-bp155.2.40.1

chromium-117.0.5938.132-bp155.2.40.1

chromium-debuginfo-117.0.5938.132-bp155.2.40.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 (aarch64 x86_64):

chromedriver-117.0.5938.132-bp154.2.126.1

chromium-117.0.5938.132-bp154.2.126.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5186.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5187.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5217.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1215776

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1215778

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2023:0277-1
Rating: critical
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP4 openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP5 .

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