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Red Hat 6 RHSA-2016:1080-01 Critical: Chromium Malware Threats

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2016
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Crucial news regarding Red Hat's chromium-browser resolves several vulnerabilities that affect both user information and overall system reliability.
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 50.0.2661.102.
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-2016-1667, CVE-2016-1668, CVE-2016-1669, CVE-2016-1670)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat malware important browser chromium

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1667 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1668 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1669 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1670 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-1.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-2016:1080-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1080.html
Issue date: 2016-05-13

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 security issue Red Hat malware important browser chromium

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

1335447 - CVE-2016-1667 chromium-browser: same origin bypass in dom

1335448 - CVE-2016-1668 chromium-browser: same origin bypass in blink v8 bindings

1335449 - CVE-2016-1669 chromium-browser: buffer overflow in v8

1335450 - CVE-2016-1670 chromium-browser: race condition in loader

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