RHSA-2020:5165 - 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 86.0.4240.198.

Security Fix(es):

• chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8 (CVE-2020-16013)
• chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in base (CVE-2020-16016)
• chromium-browser: Use after free in site isolation (CVE-2020-16017)

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 - 1896641 - CVE-2020-16016 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in base
• BZ - 1897206 - CVE-2020-16013 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8
• BZ - 1897207 - CVE-2020-16017 chromium-browser: Use after free in site isolation

CVEs

• CVE-2020-16013
• CVE-2020-16016
• CVE-2020-16017

References

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