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Red Hat Enterprise: RHSA-2016:1580-01 Important: Chromium Browser Threats

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Calendar Grey August 9, 2016
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Debian announces a crucial patch for the firefox-web-browser, addressing several vulnerabilities that pose risks to user privacy.
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 52.0.2743.116.
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-2016-5139, CVE-2016-5140, CVE-2016-5141, CVE-2016-5142, CVE-2016-5146, CVE-2016-5143, CVE-2016-5144, CVE-2016-5145)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update important Red Hat Enterprise browser security flaws exploits

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5139 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5140 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5141 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5142 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5143 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5144 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5145 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5146 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-52.0.2743.116-1.el6.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-52.0.2743.116-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-52.0.2743.116-1.el6.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-52.0.2743.116-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-52.0.2743.116-1.el6.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-52.0.2743.116-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-52.0.2743.116-1.el6.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-52.0.2743.116-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-52.0.2743.116-1.el6.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-52.0.2743.116-1.el6.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-52.0.2743.116-1.el6.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-52.0.2743.116-1.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-2016:1580-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1580.html
Issue date: 2016-08-09

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 update important Red Hat Enterprise browser security flaws exploits

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

1363980 - CVE-2016-5141 chromium-browser: Address bar spoofing

1363981 - CVE-2016-5142 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in Blink

1363982 - CVE-2016-5139 chromium-browser: Heap overflow in pdfium

1363983 - CVE-2016-5140 chromium-browser: Heap overflow in pdfium

1363984 - CVE-2016-5145 chromium-browser: Same origin bypass for images in Blink

1363985 - CVE-2016-5143 chromium-browser: Parameter sanitization failure in DevTools

1363986 - CVE-2016-5144 chromium-browser: Parameter sanitization failure in DevTools

1363987 - CVE-2016-5146 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

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