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 86.0.4240.183.

Security Fix(es):

• chromium-browser: Use after free in user interface (CVE-2020-16004)
  
• chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in ANGLE (CVE-2020-16005)
  
• chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8 (CVE-2020-16006)
  
• chromium-browser: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC (CVE-2020-16008)
  
• chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8 (CVE-2020-16009)
  

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 - 1894197 - CVE-2020-16004 chromium-browser: Use after free in user interface
• BZ - 1894198 - CVE-2020-16005 chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in ANGLE
• BZ - 1894199 - CVE-2020-16006 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8
• BZ - 1894201 - CVE-2020-16008 chromium-browser: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC
• BZ - 1894202 - CVE-2020-16009 chromium-browser: Inappropriate implementation in V8

CVEs

• CVE-2020-16004
• CVE-2020-16005
• CVE-2020-16006
• CVE-2020-16008
• CVE-2020-16009

References

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