RHSA-2014:1894 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated chromium-browser packages that fix multiple security issues are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security
impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give
detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the
CVE links in the References section.

Description

Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web
page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash or,
potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
Chromium. (CVE-2014-7904, CVE-2014-7906, CVE-2014-7907, CVE-2014-7910,
CVE-2014-7908, CVE-2014-7909)

A flaw was found in the way Chromium parsed certain URL values. A malicious
attacker could use this flaw to perform phishing attacks. (CVE-2014-7899)

All Chromium users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
Chromium version 39.0.2171.65, which corrects these issues. After
installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take
effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the
Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1165650 - CVE-2014-7899 chromium-browser: Address bar spoofing
• BZ - 1165652 - CVE-2014-7904 chromium-browser: Buffer overflow in Skia
• BZ - 1165655 - CVE-2014-7906 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in pepper plugins
• BZ - 1165656 - CVE-2014-7907 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in blink
• BZ - 1165657 - CVE-2014-7908 chromium-browser: Integer overflow in media
• BZ - 1165660 - CVE-2014-7909 chromium-browser: Uninitialized memory read in Skia
• BZ - 1165662 - CVE-2014-7910 chromium-browser: Unspecified security issues
• BZ - 1165680 - Update chromium-browser to 39.0.2171.65

CVEs

• CVE-2014-7899
• CVE-2014-7904
• CVE-2014-7906
• CVE-2014-7907
• CVE-2014-7910
• CVE-2014-7908
• CVE-2014-7909

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/11/stable-channel-update_18.html