RHSA-2018:3004 - 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 70.0.3538.67.

Security Fix(es):

• chromium-browser: Sandbox escape in AppCache (CVE-2018-17462)
• chromium-browser: Remote code execution in V8 (CVE-2018-17463)
• chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-17464)
• chromium-browser: Use after free in V8 (CVE-2018-17465)
• chromium-browser: Memory corruption in Angle (CVE-2018-17466)
• lcms2: Integer overflow in AllocateDataSet() in cmscgats.c leading to heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2018-16435)
• chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-17467)
• chromium-browser: Cross-origin URL disclosure in Blink (CVE-2018-17468)
• chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium (CVE-2018-17469)
• chromium-browser: Memory corruption in GPU Internals (CVE-2018-17470)
• chromium-browser: Security UI occlusion in full screen mode (CVE-2018-17471)
• chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-17473)
• chromium-browser: Use after free in Blink (CVE-2018-17474)
• chromium-browser: Lack of limits on update() in ServiceWorker (CVE-2018-5179)
• chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox (CVE-2018-17475)
• chromium-browser: Security UI occlusion in full screen mode (CVE-2018-17476)
• chromium-browser: UI spoof in Extensions (CVE-2018-17477)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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 - 1628969 - CVE-2018-16435 lcms2: Integer overflow in AllocateDataSet() in cmscgats.c leading to heap-based buffer overflow
• BZ - 1640098 - CVE-2018-17462 chromium-browser: Sandbox escape in AppCache
• BZ - 1640099 - CVE-2018-17463 chromium-browser: Remote code execution in V8
• BZ - 1640100 - CVE-2018-17464 chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox
• BZ - 1640101 - CVE-2018-17465 chromium-browser: Use after free in V8
• BZ - 1640102 - CVE-2018-17466 chromium-browser: Memory corruption in Angle
• BZ - 1640103 - CVE-2018-17467 chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox
• BZ - 1640104 - CVE-2018-17468 chromium-browser: Cross-origin URL disclosure in Blink
• BZ - 1640105 - CVE-2018-17469 chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium
• BZ - 1640106 - CVE-2018-17470 chromium-browser: Memory corruption in GPU Internals
• BZ - 1640107 - CVE-2018-17471 chromium-browser: Security UI occlusion in full screen mode
• BZ - 1640110 - CVE-2018-17473 chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox
• BZ - 1640111 - CVE-2018-17474 chromium-browser: Use after free in Blink
• BZ - 1640112 - CVE-2018-17475 chromium-browser: URL spoof in Omnibox
• BZ - 1640113 - CVE-2018-17476 chromium-browser: Security UI occlusion in full screen mode
• BZ - 1640114 - CVE-2018-5179 chromium-browser: Lack of limits on update() in ServiceWorker
• BZ - 1640115 - CVE-2018-17477 chromium-browser: UI spoof in Extensions

CVEs

• CVE-2018-5179
• CVE-2018-16435
• CVE-2018-17462
• CVE-2018-17463
• CVE-2018-17464
• CVE-2018-17465
• CVE-2018-17466
• CVE-2018-17467
• CVE-2018-17468
• CVE-2018-17469
• CVE-2018-17470
• CVE-2018-17471
• CVE-2018-17473
• CVE-2018-17474
• CVE-2018-17475
• CVE-2018-17476
• CVE-2018-17477

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important