Issued:

2017-12-07

Updated:

2017-12-07

RHSA-2017:3401 - Critical: chromium-browser security update

Synopsis

Critical: chromium-browser security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Critical

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 Critical. 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 63.0.3239.84.

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-2017-15407, CVE-2017-15408, CVE-2017-15409, CVE-2017-15410, CVE-2017-15411, CVE-2017-15412, CVE-2017-15413, CVE-2017-15415, CVE-2017-15416, CVE-2017-15417, CVE-2017-15418, CVE-2017-15419, CVE-2017-15420, CVE-2017-15422, CVE-2017-15423, CVE-2017-15424, CVE-2017-15425, CVE-2017-15426, CVE-2017-15427)

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

Updated Packages

• chromium-browser-63.0.3239.84-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
• chromium-browser-debuginfo-63.0.3239.84-1.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
• chromium-browser-63.0.3239.84-1.el6_9.i686.rpm
• chromium-browser-debuginfo-63.0.3239.84-1.el6_9.i686.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

• CVE-2017-15407
• CVE-2017-15408
• CVE-2017-15409
• CVE-2017-15410
• CVE-2017-15411
• CVE-2017-15412
• CVE-2017-15413
• CVE-2017-15415
• CVE-2017-15416
• CVE-2017-15417
• CVE-2017-15418
• CVE-2017-15419
• CVE-2017-15420
• CVE-2017-15422
• CVE-2017-15423
• CVE-2017-15424
• CVE-2017-15425
• CVE-2017-15426
• CVE-2017-15427

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• Content from chromereleases.googleblog.com is not included.Content from chromereleases.googleblog.com is not included.https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.