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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: RHSA-2018:3004-01 Important: Chromium RCE

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2018
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The announcement from Red Hat highlights essential security patches for the chromium-browser software, resolving significant vulnerabilities with corrective measures implemented.
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 70.0.3538.67.
Security Fix(es):
* chromium-browser: Sandbox escape in AppCache (CVE-2018-17462)
* chromium-browser: Remote code execution in V8 (CVE-2018-17463)
* chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-17464)
* chromium-browser: Use after free in V8 (CVE-2018-17465)
* chromium-browser: Memory corruption in Angle (CVE-2018-17466)
* lcms2: Integer overflow in AllocateDataSet() in cmscgats.c leading to heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2018-16435)
* chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-17467)
* chromium-browser: Cross-origin URL disclosure in Blink (CVE-2018-17468)
* chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium (CVE-2018-17469)
* chromium-browser: Memory corruption in GPU Internals (CVE-2018-17470)
* chromium-browser: Security UI occlusion in full screen mode (CVE-2018-17471)
* chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-17473)
* chromium-browser: Use after free in Blink (CVE-2018-17474)
* chromium-browser: Lack of limits on update() in ServiceWorker (CVE-2018-5179)
* chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-17475)
* chromium-browser: Security UI occlusion in full screen mode (CVE-2018-17476)
* chromium-browser: UI spoof in Extensions (CVE-2018-17477)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux important fix sandbox escape chromium-browser

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5179 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16435 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17462 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17463 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17464 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17465 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17466 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17467 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17468 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17469 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17470 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17471 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17473 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17474 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17475 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17476 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17477 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-70.0.3538.67-1.el6_10.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-2018:3004-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3004
Issue date: 2018-10-24

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution Red Hat Enterprise Linux important fix sandbox escape 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

1628969 - CVE-2018-16435 lcms2: Integer overflow in AllocateDataSet() in cmscgats.c leading to heap-based buffer overflow

1640098 - CVE-2018-17462 chromium-browser: Sandbox escape in AppCache

1640099 - CVE-2018-17463 chromium-browser: Remote code execution in V8

1640100 - CVE-2018-17464 chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox

1640101 - CVE-2018-17465 chromium-browser: Use after free in V8

1640102 - CVE-2018-17466 chromium-browser: Memory corruption in Angle

1640103 - CVE-2018-17467 chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox

1640104 - CVE-2018-17468 chromium-browser: Cross-origin URL disclosure in Blink

1640105 - CVE-2018-17469 chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium

1640106 - CVE-2018-17470 chromium-browser: Memory corruption in GPU Internals

1640107 - CVE-2018-17471 chromium-browser: Security UI occlusion in full screen mode

1640110 - CVE-2018-17473 chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox

1640111 - CVE-2018-17474 chromium-browser: Use after free in Blink

1640112 - CVE-2018-17475 chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox

1640113 - CVE-2018-17476 chromium-browser: Security UI occlusion in full screen mode

1640114 - CVE-2018-5179 chromium-browser: Lack of limits on update() in ServiceWorker

1640115 - CVE-2018-17477 chromium-browser: UI spoof in Extensions

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