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 85.0.4183.121.

Security Fix(es):

• chromium-browser: Out of bounds read in storage (CVE-2020-15960)
  
• chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions (CVE-2020-15961)
  
• chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in serial (CVE-2020-15962)
  
• chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions (CVE-2020-15963)
  
• chromium-browser: Insufficient data validation in media (CVE-2020-15964)
  
• chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in V8 (CVE-2020-15965)
  
• chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions (CVE-2020-15966)
  

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 - 1881593 - CVE-2020-15960 chromium-browser: Out of bounds read in storage
• BZ - 1881595 - CVE-2020-15961 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions
• BZ - 1881596 - CVE-2020-15962 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in serial
• BZ - 1881597 - CVE-2020-15963 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions
• BZ - 1881598 - CVE-2020-15965 chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in V8
• BZ - 1881599 - CVE-2020-15966 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in extensions
• BZ - 1881600 - CVE-2020-15964 chromium-browser: Insufficient data validation in media

CVEs

• CVE-2020-15960
• CVE-2020-15961
• CVE-2020-15962
• CVE-2020-15963
• CVE-2020-15964
• CVE-2020-15965
• CVE-2020-15966

References

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