RHSA-2017:0499 - 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 57.0.2987.98.

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-2017-5029, CVE-2017-5030, CVE-2017-5031, CVE-2017-5032, CVE-2017-5034, CVE-2017-5035, CVE-2017-5036, CVE-2017-5037, CVE-2017-5039, CVE-2017-5033, CVE-2017-5038, CVE-2017-5040, CVE-2017-5041, CVE-2017-5042, CVE-2017-5043, CVE-2017-5044, CVE-2017-5045, CVE-2017-5046)

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 - 1431030 - CVE-2017-5030 chromium-browser: memory corruption in v8
• BZ - 1431031 - CVE-2017-5031 chromium-browser: use after free in angle
• BZ - 1431032 - CVE-2017-5032 chromium-browser: out of bounds write in pdfium
• BZ - 1431033 - CVE-2017-5029 chromium-browser: integer overflow in libxslt
• BZ - 1431034 - CVE-2017-5034 chromium-browser: use after free in pdfium
• BZ - 1431036 - CVE-2017-5035 chromium-browser: incorrect security ui in omnibox
• BZ - 1431037 - CVE-2017-5036 chromium-browser: use after free in pdfium
• BZ - 1431038 - CVE-2017-5037 chromium-browser: multiple out of bounds writes in chunkdemuxer
• BZ - 1431039 - CVE-2017-5039 chromium-browser: use after free in pdfium
• BZ - 1431040 - CVE-2017-5040 chromium-browser: information disclosure in v8
• BZ - 1431041 - CVE-2017-5041 chromium-browser: address spoofing in omnibox
• BZ - 1431042 - CVE-2017-5033 chromium-browser: bypass of content security policy in blink
• BZ - 1431043 - CVE-2017-5042 chromium-browser: incorrect handling of cookies in cast
• BZ - 1431044 - CVE-2017-5038 chromium-browser: use after free in guestview
• BZ - 1431045 - CVE-2017-5043 chromium-browser: use after free in guestview
• BZ - 1431046 - CVE-2017-5044 chromium-browser: heap overflow in skia
• BZ - 1431047 - CVE-2017-5045 chromium-browser: information disclosure in xss auditor
• BZ - 1431048 - CVE-2017-5046 chromium-browser: information disclosure in blink

CVEs

• CVE-2017-5029
• CVE-2017-5030
• CVE-2017-5031
• CVE-2017-5032
• CVE-2017-5033
• CVE-2017-5034
• CVE-2017-5035
• CVE-2017-5036
• CVE-2017-5037
• CVE-2017-5038
• CVE-2017-5039
• CVE-2017-5040
• CVE-2017-5041
• CVE-2017-5042
• CVE-2017-5043
• CVE-2017-5044
• CVE-2017-5045
• CVE-2017-5046

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html