7.5 - RHSA-2015:0627

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-2015-1213, CVE-2015-1214, CVE-2015-1215, CVE-2015-1216, CVE-2015-1217, CVE-2015-1218, CVE-2015-1219, CVE-2015-1220, CVE-2015-1221, CVE-2015-1222, CVE-2015-1223, CVE-2015-1224, CVE-2015-1225, CVE-2015-1226, CVE-2015-1227, CVE-2015-1228, CVE-2015-1229, CVE-2015-1230, CVE-2015-1231)

All Chromium users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Chromium version 41.0.2272.76, 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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

1198519 - CVE-2015-1213 chromium-browser: Out-of-bounds write in skia filters 1198520 - CVE-2015-1214 chromium-browser: Out-of-bounds write in skia filters 1198521 - CVE-2015-1215 chromium-browser: Out-of-bounds write in skia filters 1198522 - CVE-2015-1216 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in v8 bindings 1198523 - CVE-2015-1217 chromium-browser: Type confusion in v8 bindings 1198525 - CVE-2015-1218 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in dom 1198526 - CVE-2015-1219 chromium-browser: Integer overflow in webgl 1198527 - CVE-2015-1220 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in gif decoder 1198528 - CVE-2015-1221 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in web databases 1198529 - CVE-2015-1222 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in service workers 1198530 - CVE-2015-1223 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in dom 1198531 - CVE-2015-1224 chromium-browser: Out-of-bounds read in vpxdecoder 1198532 - CVE-2015-1225 chromium-browser: Out-of-bounds read in pdfium 1198533 - CVE-2015-1226 chromium-browser: Validation issue in debugger 1198534 - CVE-2015-1227 chromium-browser: Uninitialized value in blink 1198535 - CVE-2015-1228 chromium-browser: Uninitialized value in rendering 1198536 - CVE-2015-1229 chromium-browser: Cookie injection in proxies 1198537 - CVE-2015-1230 chromium-browser: Type confusion in v8 1198542 - CVE-2015-1231 chromium-browser: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.