Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title chromium-browser security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2016:0638 First vendor Publication 2016-04-18
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2016-04-18
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

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.

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).

This update upgrades Chromium to version 50.0.2661.75.

Security Fix(es):

Several 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-2016-1652, CVE-2016-1653, CVE-2016-1651, CVE-2016-1654, CVE-2016-1655, CVE-2016-1656, CVE-2016-1657, CVE-2016-1658, CVE-2016-1659)

4. 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

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

1327109 - CVE-2016-1652 chromium-browser: universal XSS in extension bindings 1327110 - CVE-2016-1653 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds write in V8 1327111 - CVE-2016-1651 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in Pdfium JPEG2000 decoding 1327112 - CVE-2016-1654 chromium-browser: uninitialized memory read in media 1327113 - CVE-2016-1655 chromium-browser: use-after-free related to extensions 1327114 - CVE-2016-1656 chromium-browser: android downloaded file path restriction bypass 1327115 - CVE-2016-1657 chromium-browser: address bar spoofing 1327117 - CVE-2016-1658 chromium-browser: potential leak of sensitive information to malicious extensions 1327120 - CVE-2016-1659 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
25 % CWE-284 Access Control (Authorization) Issues
25 % CWE-200 Information Exposure
12 % CWE-254 Security Features
12 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
12 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)
12 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3943
Application 1
Os 3
Os 1
Os 3
Os 1
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-05-17 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201605-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-02 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2955-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-25 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-504.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-25 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-505.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-20 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_6d8505f0061411e6b39c00262d5ed8ee.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-19 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1061.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-19 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-0638.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-19 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2016-1060-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-18 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3549.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-15 Name : A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vu...
File : google_chrome_50_0_2661_75.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-04-15 Name : A web browser installed on the remote Mac OS X host is affected by multiple v...
File : macosx_google_chrome_50_0_2661_75.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2016-04-21 17:28:28
  • Multiple Updates
2016-04-20 13:28:17
  • Multiple Updates
2016-04-19 00:28:26
  • Multiple Updates
2016-04-18 17:27:34
  • Multiple Updates
2016-04-18 13:25:03
  • First insertion