7.5 - RHSA-2015:0093

Problem Description:

Updated chromium-browser packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

3. Description:

Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit (Blink).

Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Chromium to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Chromium. (CVE-2014-7923, CVE-2014-7924, CVE-2014-7925, CVE-2014-7926, CVE-2014-7927, CVE-2014-7928, CVE-2014-7929, CVE-2014-7930, CVE-2014-7931, CVE-2014-7932, CVE-2014-7933, CVE-2014-7934, CVE-2014-7935, CVE-2014-7936, CVE-2014-7937, CVE-2014-7938, CVE-2014-7939, CVE-2014-7940, CVE-2014-7941, CVE-2014-7942, CVE-2014-7943, CVE-2014-7944, CVE-2014-7945, CVE-2014-7946, CVE-2014-7947, CVE-2014-7948)

All Chromium users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Chromium version 40.0.2214.91, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1185202 - CVE-2014-7923 ICU: regexp engine memory corruption 1185203 - CVE-2014-7924 chromium-browser: use-after-free in IndexedDB 1185204 - CVE-2014-7925 chromium-browser: use-after-free in WebAudio 1185205 - CVE-2014-7926 ICU: regexp engine memory corruption 1185206 - CVE-2014-7927 chromium-browser: memory corruption in V8 1185208 - CVE-2014-7928 chromium-browser: memory corruption in V8 1185209 - CVE-2014-7929 chromium-browser: use-after-free in DOM 1185210 - CVE-2014-7930 chromium-browser: use-after-free in DOM 1185211 - CVE-2014-7931 chromium-browser: memory corruption in V8 1185212 - CVE-2014-7932 chromium-browser: use-after-free in DOM 1185213 - CVE-2014-7933 chromium-browser: use-after-free in FFmpeg 1185214 - CVE-2014-7934 chromium-browser: use-after-free in DOM 1185215 - CVE-2014-7935 chromium-browser: use-after-free in Speech 1185216 - CVE-2014-7936 chromium-browser: use-after-free in Views 1185217 - CVE-2014-7937 chromium-browser: use-after-free in FFmpeg 1185218 - CVE-2014-7938 chromium-browser: memory corruption in Fonts 1185219 - CVE-2014-7939 chromium-browser: same-origin-bypass in V8 1185220 - CVE-2014-7940 ICU: uninitialized value use in the collation component 1185221 - CVE-2014-7941 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in UI 1185222 - CVE-2014-7942 chromium-browser: uninitialized-value in Fonts 1185223 - CVE-2014-7943 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in Skia 1185224 - CVE-2014-7944 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in PDFium 1185225 - CVE-2014-7945 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in PDFium 1185226 - CVE-2014-7946 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in Fonts 1185229 - CVE-2014-7947 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in PDFium 1185230 - CVE-2014-7948 chromium-browser: caching error in AppCache