RHSA-2015:0093 - 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-2014-7923, CVE-2014-7924, CVE-2014-7925, CVE-2014-7926,
CVE-2014-7927, CVE-2014-7928, CVE-2014-7929, CVE-2014-7930, CVE-2014-7931,
CVE-2014-7932, CVE-2014-7933, CVE-2014-7934, CVE-2014-7935, CVE-2014-7936,
CVE-2014-7937, CVE-2014-7938, CVE-2014-7939, CVE-2014-7940, CVE-2014-7941,
CVE-2014-7942, CVE-2014-7943, CVE-2014-7944, CVE-2014-7945, CVE-2014-7946,
CVE-2014-7947, CVE-2014-7948)

All Chromium users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
Chromium version 40.0.2214.91, 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 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 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 Server - AUS 6.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1185202 - CVE-2014-7923 ICU: regexp engine memory corruption
• BZ - 1185203 - CVE-2014-7924 chromium-browser: use-after-free in IndexedDB
• BZ - 1185204 - CVE-2014-7925 chromium-browser: use-after-free in WebAudio
• BZ - 1185205 - CVE-2014-7926 ICU: regexp engine memory corruption
• BZ - 1185206 - CVE-2014-7927 chromium-browser: memory corruption in V8
• BZ - 1185208 - CVE-2014-7928 chromium-browser: memory corruption in V8
• BZ - 1185209 - CVE-2014-7929 chromium-browser: use-after-free in DOM
• BZ - 1185210 - CVE-2014-7930 chromium-browser: use-after-free in DOM
• BZ - 1185211 - CVE-2014-7931 chromium-browser: memory corruption in V8
• BZ - 1185212 - CVE-2014-7932 chromium-browser: use-after-free in DOM
• BZ - 1185213 - CVE-2014-7933 chromium-browser: use-after-free in FFmpeg
• BZ - 1185214 - CVE-2014-7934 chromium-browser: use-after-free in DOM
• BZ - 1185215 - CVE-2014-7935 chromium-browser: use-after-free in Speech
• BZ - 1185216 - CVE-2014-7936 chromium-browser: use-after-free in Views
• BZ - 1185217 - CVE-2014-7937 chromium-browser: use-after-free in FFmpeg
• BZ - 1185218 - CVE-2014-7938 chromium-browser: memory corruption in Fonts
• BZ - 1185219 - CVE-2014-7939 chromium-browser: same-origin-bypass in V8
• BZ - 1185220 - CVE-2014-7940 ICU: uninitialized value use in the collation component
• BZ - 1185221 - CVE-2014-7941 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in UI
• BZ - 1185222 - CVE-2014-7942 chromium-browser: uninitialized-value in Fonts
• BZ - 1185223 - CVE-2014-7943 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in Skia
• BZ - 1185224 - CVE-2014-7944 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in PDFium
• BZ - 1185225 - CVE-2014-7945 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in PDFium
• BZ - 1185226 - CVE-2014-7946 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in Fonts
• BZ - 1185229 - CVE-2014-7947 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in PDFium
• BZ - 1185230 - CVE-2014-7948 chromium-browser: caching error in AppCache

CVEs

• CVE-2014-7923
• CVE-2014-7924
• CVE-2014-7925
• CVE-2014-7926
• CVE-2014-7927
• CVE-2014-7928
• CVE-2014-7929
• CVE-2014-7930
• CVE-2014-7931
• CVE-2014-7932
• CVE-2014-7933
• CVE-2014-7934
• CVE-2014-7935
• CVE-2014-7936
• CVE-2014-7937
• CVE-2014-7938
• CVE-2014-7939
• CVE-2014-7940
• CVE-2014-7941
• CVE-2014-7942
• CVE-2014-7943
• CVE-2014-7944
• CVE-2014-7945
• CVE-2014-7946
• CVE-2014-7947
• CVE-2014-7948
• CVE-2014-9654
• CVE-2015-1205
• CVE-2015-1346

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/01/stable-update.html