RHSA-2016:0638 - 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 50.0.2661.75.

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-2016-1652, CVE-2016-1653, CVE-2016-1651, CVE-2016-1654, CVE-2016-1655, CVE-2016-1656, CVE-2016-1657, CVE-2016-1658, CVE-2016-1659)

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 - 1327109 - CVE-2016-1652 chromium-browser: universal XSS in extension bindings
• BZ - 1327110 - CVE-2016-1653 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds write in V8
• BZ - 1327111 - CVE-2016-1651 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in Pdfium JPEG2000 decoding
• BZ - 1327112 - CVE-2016-1654 chromium-browser: uninitialized memory read in media
• BZ - 1327113 - CVE-2016-1655 chromium-browser: use-after-free related to extensions
• BZ - 1327114 - CVE-2016-1656 chromium-browser: android downloaded file path restriction bypass
• BZ - 1327115 - CVE-2016-1657 chromium-browser: address bar spoofing
• BZ - 1327117 - CVE-2016-1658 chromium-browser: potential leak of sensitive information to malicious extensions
• BZ - 1327120 - CVE-2016-1659 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

CVEs

• CVE-2016-1651
• CVE-2016-1652
• CVE-2016-1653
• CVE-2016-1654
• CVE-2016-1655
• CVE-2016-1656
• CVE-2016-1657
• CVE-2016-1658
• CVE-2016-1659

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal