Issued:
2016-05-13
Updated:
2016-05-13

RHSA-2016:1080 - 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 50.0.2661.102.

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-2016-1667, CVE-2016-1668, CVE-2016-1669, CVE-2016-1670)

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • chromium-browser-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.i686.rpm
  • chromium-browser-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.i686.rpm
  • chromium-browser-debuginfo-50.0.2661.102-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information