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openSUSE: Chromium Important Heap Overflow Issues Fix 2025:0297-1

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Calendar Grey August 14, 2025
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest openSUSE update addresses 5 security vulnerabilities in Chromium, notably significant heap overflow concerns.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for chromium fixes the following issues:

Chromium 139.0.7258.127 (boo#1247981):

* CVE-2025-8879: Heap buffer overflow in libaom

* CVE-2025-8880: Race in V8

* CVE-2025-8901: Out of bounds write in ANGLE

* CVE-2025-8881: Inappropriate implementation in File Picker

* CVE-2025-8882: Use after free in Aura

* Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives

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-SP6:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2025-297=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le x86_64):

chromedriver-139.0.7258.127-bp156.2.155.1

chromium-139.0.7258.127-bp156.2.155.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8879.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8880.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8881.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8882.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8901.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1247981

Severity
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2025:0297-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP6 .

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