10 - RHSA-2016:0707

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 50.0.2661.94.

Security Fix(es):

* Multiple 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-2016-1660, CVE-2016-1661, CVE-2016-1662, CVE-2016-1663, CVE-2016-1666, CVE-2016-1664, CVE-2016-1665)

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

After installing the update, Chromium must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

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

1331635 - CVE-2016-1660 chromium-browser: out-of-bounds write in blink 1331636 - CVE-2016-1661 chromium-browser: memory corruption in cross-process frames 1331637 - CVE-2016-1662 chromium-browser: use-after-free in extensions 1331638 - CVE-2016-1663 chromium-browser: use-after-free in blink's v8 bindings 1331639 - CVE-2016-1664 chromium-browser: address bar spoofing 1331640 - CVE-2016-1665 chromium-browser: information leak in v8 1331642 - CVE-2016-1666 chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits