Issued:
2017-11-07
Updated:
2017-11-07

RHSA-2017:3151 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Critical: chromium-browser security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

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 Critical. 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 62.0.3202.89.

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-2017-15398, CVE-2017-15399)

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 - 1510429 - CVE-2017-15398 chromium-browser: stack buffer overflow in quic
  • BZ - 1510431 - CVE-2017-15399 chromium-browser: use after free in v8

CVEs

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-62.0.3202.89-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 39fd3a4d01bbfd6cd9e249451debd23bcca789f456679c5003131f011b5d2f84
chromium-browser-debuginfo-62.0.3202.89-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1269caecbf4d6c7837504ab46802195113204f03f55535512c15b2ad7ff90771
i386
chromium-browser-62.0.3202.89-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 20d7aa5f75e0b34d1d7317415640388c4445331cbc8a64c105de7669383bd24e
chromium-browser-debuginfo-62.0.3202.89-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 83c7640e07874650051ed100137e1ec5687bf18721d8d4b156b23ee1a724594f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-62.0.3202.89-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 39fd3a4d01bbfd6cd9e249451debd23bcca789f456679c5003131f011b5d2f84
chromium-browser-debuginfo-62.0.3202.89-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1269caecbf4d6c7837504ab46802195113204f03f55535512c15b2ad7ff90771
i386
chromium-browser-62.0.3202.89-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 20d7aa5f75e0b34d1d7317415640388c4445331cbc8a64c105de7669383bd24e
chromium-browser-debuginfo-62.0.3202.89-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 83c7640e07874650051ed100137e1ec5687bf18721d8d4b156b23ee1a724594f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-62.0.3202.89-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 39fd3a4d01bbfd6cd9e249451debd23bcca789f456679c5003131f011b5d2f84
chromium-browser-debuginfo-62.0.3202.89-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1269caecbf4d6c7837504ab46802195113204f03f55535512c15b2ad7ff90771
i386
chromium-browser-62.0.3202.89-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 20d7aa5f75e0b34d1d7317415640388c4445331cbc8a64c105de7669383bd24e
chromium-browser-debuginfo-62.0.3202.89-1.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 83c7640e07874650051ed100137e1ec5687bf18721d8d4b156b23ee1a724594f

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