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Red Hat 6: RHSA-2019-0481-01 Important: Chromium-Browser Use-After-Free

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Calendar Grey March 11, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Urgent security notification for Red Hat: Crucial patch for chromium-browser resolves buffer overflow vulnerability.
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 72.0.3626.121.
Security Fix(es):
* chromium-browser: Use-after-free in FileReader (CVE-2019-5786)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update red hat important linux use-after-free chromium-browser

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-5786 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
i686: chromium-browser-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6):
i686: chromium-browser-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
i686: chromium-browser-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-72.0.3626.121-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
i686:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0481-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0481
Issue date: 2019-03-11

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 update red hat important linux use-after-free chromium-browser

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, i686, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6) - i686, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, i686, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, i686, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1685162 - CVE-2019-5786 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in FileReader

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