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Red Hat 6: RHSA-2016:0707-01 Important: Chromium Security Threat

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Calendar Grey May 2, 2016
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Uncover essential modifications for the chromium-browser impacting Red Hat, focusing on detected vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies.
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

After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

Summary

Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).
This update upgrades Chromium to version 50.0.2661.94.
Security Fix(es):
* Multiple 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-2016-1660, CVE-2016-1661, CVE-2016-1662, CVE-2016-1663, CVE-2016-1666, CVE-2016-1664, CVE-2016-1665)

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux important update chromium-browser web security issue malicious content prevention

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1660 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1661 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1662 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1663 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1664 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1665 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1666 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_28.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-50.0.2661.94-1.el6.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.94-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-50.0.2661.94-1.el6.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.94-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-50.0.2661.94-1.el6.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.94-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-50.0.2661.94-1.el6.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.94-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-50.0.2661.94-1.el6.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.94-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-50.0.2661.94-1.el6.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.94-1.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-2016:0707-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0707.html
Issue date: 2016-05-02

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux important update chromium-browser web security issue malicious content prevention

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

1331635 - CVE-2016-1660 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds write in blink

1331636 - CVE-2016-1661 chromium-browser: memory corruption in cross-process frames

1331637 - CVE-2016-1662 chromium-browser: use-after-free in extensions

1331638 - CVE-2016-1663 chromium-browser: use-after-free in blink's v8 bindings

1331639 - CVE-2016-1664 chromium-browser: address bar spoofing

1331640 - CVE-2016-1665 chromium-browser: information leak in v8

1331642 - CVE-2016-1666 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

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