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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2016:0525-01 Critical Code Exec Risk

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Calendar Grey March 30, 2016
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This critical upgrade for chromium-browser on Red Hat guarantees that systems remain protected from various identified security vulnerabilities.
An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).
This update upgrades Chromium to version 49.0.2623.108.
Security Fix(es):
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash, execute arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when visited by the victim. (CVE-2016-1646, CVE-2016-1647, CVE-2016-1648, CVE-2016-1649, CVE-2016-1650)

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux important security malicious content browser update chromium-browser

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1646 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1647 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1648 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1649 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1650 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update_24.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-49.0.2623.108-1.el6.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-49.0.2623.108-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-49.0.2623.108-1.el6.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-49.0.2623.108-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-49.0.2623.108-1.el6.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-49.0.2623.108-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-49.0.2623.108-1.el6.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-49.0.2623.108-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-49.0.2623.108-1.el6.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-49.0.2623.108-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-49.0.2623.108-1.el6.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-49.0.2623.108-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:0525-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0525.html
Issue date: 2016-03-30

Topic

An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 6 Supplementary.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux important security malicious content browser update chromium-browser

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1321811 - CVE-2016-1646 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in V8

1321812 - CVE-2016-1647 chromium-browser: use-after-free in Navigation

1321814 - CVE-2016-1648 chromium-browser: use-after-free in Extensions

1321815 - CVE-2016-1649 chromium-browser: buffer overflow in libANGLE

1321816 - CVE-2016-1650 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

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