RHSA-2016:1580 - 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 52.0.2743.116.

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-2016-5139, CVE-2016-5140, CVE-2016-5141, CVE-2016-5142, CVE-2016-5146, CVE-2016-5143, CVE-2016-5144, CVE-2016-5145)

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 - 1363980 - CVE-2016-5141 chromium-browser: Address bar spoofing
• BZ - 1363981 - CVE-2016-5142 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in Blink
• BZ - 1363982 - CVE-2016-5139 chromium-browser: Heap overflow in pdfium
• BZ - 1363983 - CVE-2016-5140 chromium-browser: Heap overflow in pdfium
• BZ - 1363984 - CVE-2016-5145 chromium-browser: Same origin bypass for images in Blink
• BZ - 1363985 - CVE-2016-5143 chromium-browser: Parameter sanitization failure in DevTools
• BZ - 1363986 - CVE-2016-5144 chromium-browser: Parameter sanitization failure in DevTools
• BZ - 1363987 - CVE-2016-5146 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

CVEs

• CVE-2016-5139
• CVE-2016-5140
• CVE-2016-5141
• CVE-2016-5142
• CVE-2016-5143
• CVE-2016-5144
• CVE-2016-5145
• CVE-2016-5146

References

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