RHSA-2016:1485 - 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 52.0.2743.82.

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-2016-1706, CVE-2016-1708, CVE-2016-1709, CVE-2016-1710, CVE-2016-1711, CVE-2016-5127, CVE-2016-5128, CVE-2016-5129, CVE-2016-5130, CVE-2016-5131, CVE-2016-5132, CVE-2016-5133, CVE-2016-5134, CVE-2016-5135, CVE-2016-5136, CVE-2016-5137, CVE-2016-1705)

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 - 1358630 - CVE-2016-1706 chromium-browser: sandbox escape in ppapi
• BZ - 1358632 - CVE-2016-1708 chromium-browser: use-after-free in extensions
• BZ - 1358633 - CVE-2016-1709 chromium-browser: heap-buffer-overflow in sfntly
• BZ - 1358634 - CVE-2016-1710 chromium-browser: same-origin bypass in blink
• BZ - 1358636 - CVE-2016-1711 chromium-browser: same-origin bypass in blink
• BZ - 1358637 - CVE-2016-5127 chromium-browser: use-after-free in blink
• BZ - 1358638 - CVE-2016-5128 chromium-browser: same-origin bypass in v8
• BZ - 1358639 - CVE-2016-5129 chromium-browser: memory corruption in v8
• BZ - 1358640 - CVE-2016-5130 chromium-browser: url spoofing
• BZ - 1358641 - CVE-2016-5131 chromium-browser: use-after-free in libxml
• BZ - 1358642 - CVE-2016-5132 chromium-browser: limited same-origin bypass in service workers
• BZ - 1358643 - CVE-2016-5133 chromium-browser: origin confusion in proxy authentication
• BZ - 1358645 - CVE-2016-5134 chromium-browser: url leakage via pac script
• BZ - 1358646 - CVE-2016-5135 chromium-browser: content-security-policy bypass
• BZ - 1358647 - CVE-2016-5136 chromium-browser: use after free in extensions
• BZ - 1358648 - CVE-2016-5137 chromium-browser: history sniffing with hsts and csp
• BZ - 1358649 - CVE-2016-1705 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

CVEs

• CVE-2016-1705
• CVE-2016-1706
• CVE-2016-1708
• CVE-2016-1709
• CVE-2016-1710
• CVE-2016-1711
• CVE-2016-5127
• CVE-2016-5128
• CVE-2016-5129
• CVE-2016-5130
• CVE-2016-5131
• CVE-2016-5132
• CVE-2016-5133
• CVE-2016-5134
• CVE-2016-5135
• CVE-2016-5136
• CVE-2016-5137

References

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