Synopsis

Important: chromium-browser security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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 80.0.3987.162.

Security Fix(es):

• chromium-browser: Use after free in WebAudio (CVE-2020-6450)
  
• chromium-browser: Use after free in WebAudio (CVE-2020-6451)
  
• chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in media (CVE-2020-6452)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1820155 - CVE-2020-6450 chromium-browser: Use after free in WebAudio
• BZ - 1820156 - CVE-2020-6451 chromium-browser: Use after free in WebAudio
• BZ - 1820157 - CVE-2020-6452 chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in media

CVEs

• CVE-2020-6450
• CVE-2020-6451
• CVE-2020-6452
• CVE-2020-6453

References

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

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 049a0afef1db1399461b90fe1ae9eb7bf23ccf246944f9ae297e1f536e085126
chromium-browser-debuginfo-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: f1232fac69534a1229c26c24a5a104cf99c259e4b6aef84132630637a02e3a51
i386
chromium-browser-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ca93abf20b220c768da928e8ea4efe56b88fec80677c7093319df0074c30e7fa
chromium-browser-debuginfo-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 08389980fb22bb257e0a97a30cd6e8fba40e1123492c9b1132b1864a12c74b41

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 049a0afef1db1399461b90fe1ae9eb7bf23ccf246944f9ae297e1f536e085126
chromium-browser-debuginfo-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: f1232fac69534a1229c26c24a5a104cf99c259e4b6aef84132630637a02e3a51
i386
chromium-browser-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ca93abf20b220c768da928e8ea4efe56b88fec80677c7093319df0074c30e7fa
chromium-browser-debuginfo-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 08389980fb22bb257e0a97a30cd6e8fba40e1123492c9b1132b1864a12c74b41

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 049a0afef1db1399461b90fe1ae9eb7bf23ccf246944f9ae297e1f536e085126
chromium-browser-debuginfo-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: f1232fac69534a1229c26c24a5a104cf99c259e4b6aef84132630637a02e3a51
i386
chromium-browser-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.i686.rpm	SHA-256: ca93abf20b220c768da928e8ea4efe56b88fec80677c7093319df0074c30e7fa
chromium-browser-debuginfo-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 08389980fb22bb257e0a97a30cd6e8fba40e1123492c9b1132b1864a12c74b41

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
x86_64
chromium-browser-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 049a0afef1db1399461b90fe1ae9eb7bf23ccf246944f9ae297e1f536e085126
chromium-browser-debuginfo-80.0.3987.162-1.el6_10.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: f1232fac69534a1229c26c24a5a104cf99c259e4b6aef84132630637a02e3a51