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RedHat: RHSA-2020-4974-01 Important Chromium-Browser Update

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An essential safety patch for chromium-browser has just been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, complete with important guidelines
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 86.0.4240.183.
Security Fix(es):
* chromium-browser: Use after free in user interface (CVE-2020-16004)
* chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in ANGLE (CVE-2020-16005)
* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8 (CVE-2020-16006)
* chromium-browser: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC (CVE-2020-16008)
* chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8 (CVE-2020-16009)
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 update Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact chromium-browser

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16004 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16005 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16006 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16008 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-16009 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
i686: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6):
i686: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
i686: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
x86_64: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6):
i386: chromium-browser-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686.rpm chromium-browser-debuginfo-86.0.4240.183-1.el6_10.i686.rpm
i686:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4974-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4974
Issue date: 2020-11-09

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact 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

1894197 - CVE-2020-16004 chromium-browser: Use after free in user interface

1894198 - CVE-2020-16005 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in ANGLE

1894199 - CVE-2020-16006 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8

1894201 - CVE-2020-16008 chromium-browser: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC

1894202 - CVE-2020-16009 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8

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