Synopsis

Important: chromium-browser security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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 50.0.2661.94.

Security Fix(es):

• Multiple 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-2016-1660, CVE-2016-1661, CVE-2016-1662, CVE-2016-1663, CVE-2016-1666, CVE-2016-1664, CVE-2016-1665)

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

After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

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 - 1331635 - CVE-2016-1660 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds write in blink
• BZ - 1331636 - CVE-2016-1661 chromium-browser: memory corruption in cross-process frames
• BZ - 1331637 - CVE-2016-1662 chromium-browser: use-after-free in extensions
• BZ - 1331638 - CVE-2016-1663 chromium-browser: use-after-free in blink’s v8 bindings
• BZ - 1331639 - CVE-2016-1664 chromium-browser: address bar spoofing
• BZ - 1331640 - CVE-2016-1665 chromium-browser: information leak in v8
• BZ - 1331642 - CVE-2016-1666 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

CVEs

• CVE-2016-1660
• CVE-2016-1661
• CVE-2016-1662
• CVE-2016-1663
• CVE-2016-1664
• CVE-2016-1665
• CVE-2016-1666

References