RHSA-2015:0627 - 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-2015-1213, CVE-2015-1214, CVE-2015-1215, CVE-2015-1216,
CVE-2015-1217, CVE-2015-1218, CVE-2015-1219, CVE-2015-1220, CVE-2015-1221,
CVE-2015-1222, CVE-2015-1223, CVE-2015-1224, CVE-2015-1225, CVE-2015-1226,
CVE-2015-1227, CVE-2015-1228, CVE-2015-1229, CVE-2015-1230, CVE-2015-1231)

All Chromium users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
Chromium version 41.0.2272.76, 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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 - 1198519 - CVE-2015-1213 chromium-browser: Out-of-bounds write in skia filters
• BZ - 1198520 - CVE-2015-1214 chromium-browser: Out-of-bounds write in skia filters
• BZ - 1198521 - CVE-2015-1215 chromium-browser: Out-of-bounds write in skia filters
• BZ - 1198522 - CVE-2015-1216 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in v8 bindings
• BZ - 1198523 - CVE-2015-1217 chromium-browser: Type confusion in v8 bindings
• BZ - 1198525 - CVE-2015-1218 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in dom
• BZ - 1198526 - CVE-2015-1219 chromium-browser: Integer overflow in webgl
• BZ - 1198527 - CVE-2015-1220 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in gif decoder
• BZ - 1198528 - CVE-2015-1221 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in web databases
• BZ - 1198529 - CVE-2015-1222 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in service workers
• BZ - 1198530 - CVE-2015-1223 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in dom
• BZ - 1198531 - CVE-2015-1224 chromium-browser: Out-of-bounds read in vpxdecoder
• BZ - 1198532 - CVE-2015-1225 chromium-browser: Out-of-bounds read in pdfium
• BZ - 1198533 - CVE-2015-1226 chromium-browser: Validation issue in debugger
• BZ - 1198534 - CVE-2015-1227 chromium-browser: Uninitialized value in blink
• BZ - 1198535 - CVE-2015-1228 chromium-browser: Uninitialized value in rendering
• BZ - 1198536 - CVE-2015-1229 chromium-browser: Cookie injection in proxies
• BZ - 1198537 - CVE-2015-1230 chromium-browser: Type confusion in v8
• BZ - 1198542 - CVE-2015-1231 chromium-browser: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

CVEs

• CVE-2015-1230
• CVE-2015-1220
• CVE-2015-1231
• CVE-2015-1224
• CVE-2015-1225
• CVE-2015-1226
• CVE-2015-1227
• CVE-2015-1219
• CVE-2015-1218
• CVE-2015-1222
• CVE-2015-1223
• CVE-2015-1215
• CVE-2015-1214
• CVE-2015-1217
• CVE-2015-1216
• CVE-2015-1228
• CVE-2015-1229
• CVE-2015-1213
• CVE-2015-1221

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html