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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2020-4351-01 Important Chromium Update

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Calendar Grey October 26, 2020
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Canonical has released a critical update for the firefox-web-browser, providing essential security enhancements that tackle various vulnerabilities, thereby enhancing system protection.
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 86.0.4240.111.
Security Fix(es):
* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in Blink (CVE-2020-16000)
* chromium-browser: Use after free in media (CVE-2020-16001)
* chromium-browser: Use after free in PDFium (CVE-2020-16002)
* freetype: Heap-based buffer overflow due to integer truncation in Load_SBit_Png (CVE-2020-15999)
* chromium-browser: Use after free in printing (CVE-2020-16003)
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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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15999 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16000 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16001 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16002 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16003 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
i686: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6):
i686: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
i686: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.111-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
i686:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4351-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4351
Issue date: 2020-10-26

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 security impact browser update

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

1890210 - CVE-2020-15999 freetype: Heap-based buffer overflow due to integer truncation in Load_SBit_Png

1890266 - CVE-2020-16000 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in Blink

1890267 - CVE-2020-16001 chromium-browser: Use after free in media

1890268 - CVE-2020-16002 chromium-browser: Use after free in PDFium

1890269 - CVE-2020-16003 chromium-browser: Use after free in printing

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