RHSA-2017:2676 - 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 61.0.3163.79.

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-2017-5111, CVE-2017-5112, CVE-2017-5113, CVE-2017-5114, CVE-2017-5115, CVE-2017-5116, CVE-2017-5117, CVE-2017-5118, CVE-2017-5119, CVE-2017-5120)

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 - 1488772 - CVE-2017-5111 chromium-browser: use after free in pdfium
• BZ - 1488773 - CVE-2017-5112 chromium-browser: heap buffer overflow in webgl
• BZ - 1488774 - CVE-2017-5113 chromium-browser: heap buffer overflow in skia
• BZ - 1488775 - CVE-2017-5114 chromium-browser: memory lifecycle issue in pdfium
• BZ - 1488776 - CVE-2017-5115 chromium-browser: type confusion in v8
• BZ - 1488777 - CVE-2017-5116 chromium-browser: type confusion in v8
• BZ - 1488778 - CVE-2017-5117 chromium-browser: use of uninitialized value in skia
• BZ - 1488779 - CVE-2017-5118 chromium-browser: bypass of content security policy in blink
• BZ - 1488781 - CVE-2017-5119 chromium-browser: use of uninitialized value in skia
• BZ - 1488782 - CVE-2017-5120 chromium-browser: potential https downgrade during redirect navigation

CVEs

• CVE-2017-5111
• CVE-2017-5112
• CVE-2017-5113
• CVE-2017-5114
• CVE-2017-5115
• CVE-2017-5116
• CVE-2017-5117
• CVE-2017-5118
• CVE-2017-5119
• CVE-2017-5120

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html