Important: chromium-browser security update

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 54.0.2840.59.

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-2016-5181, CVE-2016-5182, CVE-2016-5183, CVE-2016-5184, CVE-2016-5185, CVE-2016-5187, CVE-2016-5194, CVE-2016-5186, CVE-2016-5188, CVE-2016-5189, CVE-2016-5190, CVE-2016-5191, CVE-2016-5192, CVE-2016-5193)

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 - 1384347 - CVE-2016-5181 chromium-browser: universal xss in blink
• BZ - 1384348 - CVE-2016-5182 chromium-browser: heap overflow in blink
• BZ - 1384349 - CVE-2016-5183 chromium-browser: use after free in pdfium
• BZ - 1384350 - CVE-2016-5184 chromium-browser: use after free in pdfium
• BZ - 1384352 - CVE-2016-5185 chromium-browser: use after free in blink
• BZ - 1384354 - CVE-2016-5187 chromium-browser: url spoofing
• BZ - 1384355 - CVE-2016-5188 chromium-browser: ui spoofing
• BZ - 1384357 - CVE-2016-5192 chromium-browser: cross-origin bypass in blink
• BZ - 1384358 - CVE-2016-5189 chromium-browser: url spoofing
• BZ - 1384360 - CVE-2016-5186 chromium-browser: out of bounds read in devtools
• BZ - 1384361 - CVE-2016-5191 chromium-browser: universal xss in bookmarks
• BZ - 1384362 - CVE-2016-5190 chromium-browser: use after free in internals
• BZ - 1384364 - CVE-2016-5193 chromium-browser: scheme bypass
• BZ - 1384365 - CVE-2016-5194 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

CVEs

• CVE-2016-5181
• CVE-2016-5182
• CVE-2016-5183
• CVE-2016-5184
• CVE-2016-5185
• CVE-2016-5186
• CVE-2016-5187
• CVE-2016-5188
• CVE-2016-5189
• CVE-2016-5190
• CVE-2016-5191
• CVE-2016-5192
• CVE-2016-5193
• CVE-2016-5194

References

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