RHSA-2016:0525 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives
a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.

Description

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

This update upgrades Chromium to version 49.0.2623.108.

Security Fix(es):

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-2016-1646, CVE-2016-1647, CVE-2016-1648, CVE-2016-1649, CVE-2016-1650)

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

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 - 1321811 - CVE-2016-1646 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in V8
• BZ - 1321812 - CVE-2016-1647 chromium-browser: use-after-free in Navigation
• BZ - 1321814 - CVE-2016-1648 chromium-browser: use-after-free in Extensions
• BZ - 1321815 - CVE-2016-1649 chromium-browser: buffer overflow in libANGLE
• BZ - 1321816 - CVE-2016-1650 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

CVEs

• CVE-2016-1647
• CVE-2016-1646
• CVE-2016-1650
• CVE-2016-1649
• CVE-2016-1648

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update_24.html