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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1912 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2015-10-15
Updated:
2015-10-15

RHSA-2015:1912 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: chromium-browser security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

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, execute
arbitrary code, or disclose sensitive information when visited by the
victim. (CVE-2015-6755, CVE-2015-6756, CVE-2015-6757, CVE-2015-6758,
CVE-2015-6759, CVE-2015-6760, CVE-2015-6761, CVE-2015-6762, CVE-2015-6763)

All Chromium users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
Chromium version 46.0.2490.71, 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 6.7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.7 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 6.7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.7 i386

Fixes

  • BZ - 1271480 - CVE-2015-6755 chromium-browser: cross-origin bypass in Blink
  • BZ - 1271483 - CVE-2015-6756 chromium-browser: use-after-free in PDFium
  • BZ - 1271553 - CVE-2015-6757 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in ServiceWorker
  • BZ - 1271554 - CVE-2015-6758 chromium-browser: Bad-cast in PDFium
  • BZ - 1271555 - CVE-2015-6759 chromium-browser: Information leakage in LocalStorage
  • BZ - 1271556 - CVE-2015-6760 chromium-browser: Improper error handling in libANGLE
  • BZ - 1271557 - CVE-2015-6761 chromium-browser: Memory corruption in FFMpeg
  • BZ - 1271558 - CVE-2015-6762 chromium-browser: CORS bypass in CSS fonts
  • BZ - 1271559 - CVE-2015-6763 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

CVEs

  • CVE-2015-6760
  • CVE-2015-6761
  • CVE-2015-6762
  • CVE-2015-6763
  • CVE-2015-6755
  • CVE-2015-6757
  • CVE-2015-6756
  • CVE-2015-6759
  • CVE-2015-6758

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
  • http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/10/stable-channel-update.html
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d473db5f0a6ab71ee4cae0ea679cca53b0956a013c7ada9a597f1d125b77eaf5
chromium-browser-debuginfo-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0cf478dbba584acfef8aaa4eca6cf3acddd31e039a8af333c710942b1be5c094
i386
chromium-browser-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0c0e2c63311d8e2b78a396cd2bcea5287036952aa1a4e9014b39d65938967c51
chromium-browser-debuginfo-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: ed2c8457d953972d1fe76fd332b271d4881f73c5279337a3c2d5ea3fe0594d65

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.7

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d473db5f0a6ab71ee4cae0ea679cca53b0956a013c7ada9a597f1d125b77eaf5
chromium-browser-debuginfo-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0cf478dbba584acfef8aaa4eca6cf3acddd31e039a8af333c710942b1be5c094
i386
chromium-browser-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0c0e2c63311d8e2b78a396cd2bcea5287036952aa1a4e9014b39d65938967c51
chromium-browser-debuginfo-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: ed2c8457d953972d1fe76fd332b271d4881f73c5279337a3c2d5ea3fe0594d65

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d473db5f0a6ab71ee4cae0ea679cca53b0956a013c7ada9a597f1d125b77eaf5
chromium-browser-debuginfo-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0cf478dbba584acfef8aaa4eca6cf3acddd31e039a8af333c710942b1be5c094
i386
chromium-browser-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0c0e2c63311d8e2b78a396cd2bcea5287036952aa1a4e9014b39d65938967c51
chromium-browser-debuginfo-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: ed2c8457d953972d1fe76fd332b271d4881f73c5279337a3c2d5ea3fe0594d65

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d473db5f0a6ab71ee4cae0ea679cca53b0956a013c7ada9a597f1d125b77eaf5
chromium-browser-debuginfo-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0cf478dbba584acfef8aaa4eca6cf3acddd31e039a8af333c710942b1be5c094
i386
chromium-browser-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0c0e2c63311d8e2b78a396cd2bcea5287036952aa1a4e9014b39d65938967c51
chromium-browser-debuginfo-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: ed2c8457d953972d1fe76fd332b271d4881f73c5279337a3c2d5ea3fe0594d65

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d473db5f0a6ab71ee4cae0ea679cca53b0956a013c7ada9a597f1d125b77eaf5
i386
chromium-browser-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0c0e2c63311d8e2b78a396cd2bcea5287036952aa1a4e9014b39d65938967c51

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.7

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d473db5f0a6ab71ee4cae0ea679cca53b0956a013c7ada9a597f1d125b77eaf5
chromium-browser-debuginfo-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0cf478dbba584acfef8aaa4eca6cf3acddd31e039a8af333c710942b1be5c094
i386
chromium-browser-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 0c0e2c63311d8e2b78a396cd2bcea5287036952aa1a4e9014b39d65938967c51
chromium-browser-debuginfo-46.0.2490.71-1.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: ed2c8457d953972d1fe76fd332b271d4881f73c5279337a3c2d5ea3fe0594d65

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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