RHSA-2016:1201 - 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 51.0.2704.79.

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-2016-1696, CVE-2016-1697, CVE-2016-1703, CVE-2016-1698, CVE-2016-1699, CVE-2016-1700, CVE-2016-1701, CVE-2016-1702)

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 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

Fixes

• BZ - 1342001 - CVE-2016-1696 chromium-browser: cross-origin bypass in extension bindings
• BZ - 1342002 - CVE-2016-1697 chromium-browser: cross-origin bypass in blink
• BZ - 1342003 - CVE-2016-1698 chromium-browser: information leak in extension bindings
• BZ - 1342004 - CVE-2016-1699 chromium-browser: parameter sanitization failure in devtools
• BZ - 1342005 - CVE-2016-1700 chromium-browser: use-after-free in extensions
• BZ - 1342007 - CVE-2016-1701 chromium-browser: use-after-free in autofill
• BZ - 1342008 - CVE-2016-1702 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in skia
• BZ - 1342009 - CVE-2016-1703 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

CVEs

• CVE-2016-1696
• CVE-2016-1697
• CVE-2016-1698
• CVE-2016-1699
• CVE-2016-1700
• CVE-2016-1701
• CVE-2016-1702
• CVE-2016-1703

References

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